What Good Are Laws

Here in Connecticut we have just about every law we need but what good are laws if no one enforces it! Case in point Title VII it is a law that is suppose to prevent employee discriminations, but...

Civil rights agency sued over handling of trans worker discrimination complaints

AP News

By  CLAIRE SAVAGE

July 29, 2025

Legal 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.

My advice to another who is thinking about transitioning... get a job first! Get a couple of reviews under your belt before transitioning.

Why because I have seen a number of trans people lose their discrimination complaint because the company said they fired them for lack of performance or their quality of their work. But if you have reviews to so that is not true you are more likely to win.

As for get a job while trans........ you just added a whole mess of roadblocks. As someone I know said about their winning their discrimination case she said "The idiot came right out and said that they were not hiring me because I'm trans." Unless you have idiot in HR you are not going to win.

The Insurance Journal said they the EEOC threw out a number of cases that were already in process...

Last month she defended her decision to drop several lawsuits on behalf of transgender workers during her June 18 Senate committee confirmation hearing, saying her agency is not independent and must comply with the president’s orders.

Hm... didn't they use that excuse in Nuremberg?

“It was impossible to both comply with the president’s executive order as an executive branch agency, and also zealously defend the workers we had brought the case on behalf,” she said.

However, Lucas acknowledged that a 2020 Supreme Court ruling — Bostock v. Clayton County — “did clearly hold that discriminating against someone on the basis of sex included firing an individual who is transgender or based on their sexual orientation.”

Hey! It is only the law and what Trump wants Trumps gets even if it is against the law!

HR Drive said,

“Instead of serving its critical role to prevent discrimination in the workplace, the EEOC, under Andrea Lucas’ leadership, is actually promoting discrimination,” Gaylynn Burroughs, vice president for education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center, said in a press release. NWLC and Democracy Forward filed the lawsuit on behalf of FreeState Justice, according to the announcement.

“Transgender workers deserve to be protected against harassment, and the EEOC is obligated to do so under law. But the Trump administration seems hellbent on bullying transgender people in every possible way and ensuring that they are pushed out of all forms of public life, including their workplaces, so we’re taking the administration to court,” Burroughs said. 

Laws don't mean anything if they are not enforced! We can have all the laws like Connecticut but if they are not enforced we got nothing!