ACLU moves to assume the demand for gender identity that EEOC is abandoning Trump’s order

New York – The American Union of Civil Libertads is seeking to represent two restaurant workers in a demand for gender identity discrimination after an American agency that enforces the civil rights laws present to eliminate the case in response to the recent executive order of President Donald Trump aimed at transgender people.

The demand against a Culver restaurant in Clarkston, Michigan, is one of the seven cases that involve gender identity discrimination The Employment Opportunities Commission has presented dismissed. The EEOC has argued in judicial presentations that pursues the demands in conflicts with Trump’s executive order, which declared that the government would only recognize female and male sexes and ordered federal agencies to take measures to comply with.

The EEOC sought to dismiss the demand against Culver on Monday only four months after it presented it after a year investigation. The interim president of the EEOC, Andrea Lucas, declined to comment on the seven cases that the agency is trying to leave, but in a statement to Associated Press, he said that the EEOC, as an agency of the executive branch, “will comply with Robusto.

The original demand alleges that Culver dismissed a transgender man, Asher Lucas, and two employees, Regina Zaviski and Savannah Nurme-Robinson, after they repeatedly complained to the managers that another employee had been harassed and deceive Lucas. The demand says that the managers warned the employee about their behavior, but when Lucas, Zaviski and Nurme-Robinson complained that the harassment did not stop, the three were fired.

The ACLU presented a motion to intervene in the name of Zaviski and Nurme-Robinson on Thursday, while Lucas had previously decided to follow the demand on his own.

“If this administration does not want to protect the rights of transgender people and their allies, we want them to know that we will do it,” said Syeda Davidson, lawyer for the Michigan ACLU staff.

A lawyer who represents Culver in the lawsuit did not immediately return an email in search of comments. In judicial presentations, the defendants have denied the accusations of discrimination.

Lucas had already presented a motion to intervene, or follow his own demand, in November for fear that the EOOC would no longer advocate in his name after Trump win the presidential elections, according to his lawyer, Angela Mannarino.

Lucas, 21, told AP that he has continued to chase his case over the years because he wants to defend transgender people and make sure they don’t go through what he did.

“I’m glad to be the person who can do that,” he said.

The EEOC decisions to leave the seven demands pointed out a great deviation from their prior interpretation of the Civil Rights Law.

Last year, the EEOC updated its guide to specify that deliberately using the incorrect pronouns for an employee, or rejecting access to the bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity, constituted a form of harassment. That followed a ruling from the 2020 Supreme Court that homosexuals, lesbian and transgender people are protected by labor discrimination.

Almost all discrimination positions in the workplace must pass through the EOOC at least initially. After a long process, workers can search for the right demands on their EEOC account, but that means that they must assume the cost of litigation on their own and are deprived of the agency’s research resources.

Lucas, the interim president, announced in a statement that one of his priorities would be to “defend the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights.” Later, he ordered that the EEOC would continue to accept each and every one of the discrimination positions presented by the workers, although the complaints that “imply” the Trump order should be elevated to the “review” headquarters.

In fiscal year 2023, the agency received more than 3,000 positions that allege discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

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