{"id":33466,"date":"2025-02-16T04:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/us-civil-rights-agency-seeks-to-dismiss-gender-identity-discrimination-cases\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T04:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:42:16","slug":"us-civil-rights-agency-seeks-to-dismiss-gender-identity-discrimination-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/us-civil-rights-agency-seeks-to-dismiss-gender-identity-discrimination-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"US civil rights agency seeks to dismiss gender-identity discrimination cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equal Employment Opportunity Commission moves to withdraw cases that conflict with Trump order on two sexes<\/p>\n<p>The US commission that enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination has moved to dismiss six cases it brought on behalf of workers alleging gender-identity discrimination, it was revealed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), established via the Civil Rights Act of 1964, said in court papers it was looking to dismiss the cases in Illinois, Alabama, New York and California, because they now conflict with a Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-executive-order-gender-sex\">executive order<\/a> to recognize only two \u201cimmutable\u201d sexes, male and female.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/15\/transgender-equal-employment-opportunity-commission\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equal Employment Opportunity Commission moves to withdraw cases that conflict with Trump order on two sexes The US commission that enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination has moved to dismiss six cases it brought on behalf of workers alleging gender-identity discrimination, it was revealed on Saturday. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), established via &#8230; <a title=\"US civil rights agency seeks to dismiss gender-identity discrimination cases\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/us-civil-rights-agency-seeks-to-dismiss-gender-identity-discrimination-cases\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US civil rights agency seeks to dismiss gender-identity discrimination cases\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}