The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has dropped several lawsuits on behalf of transgender workers, stalled progress on some new cases and subjected others to heightened scrutiny.AP NewsBy CLAIRE SAVAGEJuly 29, 2025Legal groups sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Tuesday, claiming it is unlawfully refusing to enforce federal workplace protections for transgender workers.Led by Acting Chair Andrea Lucas, a Republican, the federal agency charged with enforcing laws against workplace discrimination has moved swiftly to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring two unchangeable sexes. Under Lucas’s leadership, the EEOC has dropped several lawsuits on behalf of transgender workers, stalled progress on some new cases, and subjected others to heightened scrutiny. The lawsuit also alleges that the agency halted payments to state and local civil rights agencies for investigating gender identity discrimination claims.“For over 60 years, the EEOC’s mandate has been to protect workers from discrimination, not to pick and choose who is deemed worthy of protection based on political interference,” said Skye Perryman, the president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which alongside the National Women’s Law Center brought the case on behalf of Maryland LGBTQ+ advocacy group FreeState Justice.
And don't think that it is only the EEOC that has been sh*t canning our complains! In another AP News article they report,
By COLLIN BINKLEYJuly 18, 2025The Trump administration insists it hasn’t wavered in its duty to protect the civil rights of America’s children even as it dismantles the Education Department. Yet its own data shows the agency has resolved far fewer civil rights cases than in past years despite families filing more complaints.The Education Department’s civil rights branch lost nearly half its staff amid mass layoffs in March, raising questions about its ability to address a deep backlog of complaints from students alleging discrimination based on disability, sex or race. Pressed on the issue in June, Education Secretary Linda McMahon denied a slowdown.“Not only are we reducing the backlog, but we are keeping up with the current amount with a reduced staff because we are doing it efficiently,” McMahon said at a Senate budget hearing.By several measures, however, the output of the Office for Civil Rights appears to have fallen sharply in comparison with previous years. A public database of the office’s resolution agreements — cases in which schools or universities voluntarily agreed to address civil rights concerns — suggests the office’s work has slowed
The Republicans believe that it is their right to discriminant! The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights & The Leadership Conference Education Fund writes,
The Trump administration has worked aggressively to turn back the clock on the nation’s civil and human rights progress. The timeline below is not comprehensive but is representative of the tremendously harmful actions taken by this administration — which are deeply impacting our communities and devastating people’s lives, families, and futures. These actions seek to create chaos, sow division, and roll back critical civil and human rights and protections. Nevertheless, the civil rights community persists in pushing back to defend and advance rights and freedoms for all.Notably, the administration has installed the president’s personal attorneys and other anti-civil rights extremists into positions responsible for enforcing landmark civil rights laws, including at the Department of Justice and its Civil Rights Division, where political appointees have perverted the founding mission of the division — devoting themselves to promoting the president’s dangerous authoritarian, anti-civil and human rights agenda that targets our nation’s most vulnerable people and communities. Similarly, the president is nominating individuals to serve in lifetime positions on the federal bench — individuals he believes will be loyal to him rather than to the nation’s laws and Constitution, and who he believes will carry out his anti-civil rights plans.The administration has also engaged in a frontal attack on the rule of law and the basic tenets of our democracy, including by targeting law firms that have challenged the administration, installing the president’s personal lawyers into roles throughout the executive branch, and defying court orders when federal judges deem their actions unlawful. It also includes deporting U.S. citizens and others without due process, arresting student protestors who haven’t been charged with a crime, subjecting nonprofit and elected leaders to inappropriate physical force and retaliatory criminal prosecutions, deploying the National Guard on peaceful protestors, and other cruel, authoritarian actions.
Is Trump & Company stopping the enforcing all non-discrimination laws!
Order directs federal agencies to ‘deprioritize enforcement’ of laws where policies have discriminatory effectsThe GuardianBy Joseph Gedeon24 Apr 2025Donald Trump’s executive order on Wednesday eliminating “disparate-impact liability” from federal civil rights enforcement has sparked condemnation from legal and civil rights advocates who argue it guts protections that have shielded Americans from discrimination for decades.The order directs federal agencies to immediately “deprioritize enforcement” of laws where policies have discriminatory effects, even without discriminatory intent – a cornerstone of modern civil rights protection. It also instructs the attorney general to begin repealing or amending regulations implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.“Disparate-impact liability imperils the effectiveness of civil rights laws by mandating, rather than proscribing, discrimination,” the order reads denouncing the concept as “a pernicious movement” threatening “the American Dream”.In legal terms, disparate-impact liability allows people to challenge practices that appear neutral but disproportionately harm protected groups, without having to prove deliberate discrimination.
The roots of the Republicans bigotry goes all the way back to the 1950s and President Eisenhower and school integration in the case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and then the nine Black students (the "Little Rock Nine") tried to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas and Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent in the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army to escort the students into school and protect them.
The Southern Democrats all were raced that opposed Eisenhower school integration and using the military but then came Johnson! The Civil Rights Act of 1964. It was Nixon who saw racism could be used to rope in the Southern Democrats to the the Republican party. Ever since the Republicans have opposed non-discriminations laws!
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