The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has said the agency’s “flawed” guidance on harassment due to gender identity should be rescinded.

In a news release headlined “Removing Gender Ideology and Restoring the EEOC’s Role of Protecting Women in the Workplace,” the agency said it’s “returning to its mission of protecting women from sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination” and rolling back the “gender identity agenda.”

The agency noted that one of President Donald Trump’s first executive orders (EOs) was EO 14168, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” This EO “directed federal agencies to enforce laws governing sex-based rights, protections, opportunities, and accommodations to protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes, and to remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages promoting gender ideology,” the EEOC said.

Following EO 14168, Lucas has taken the following actions:

• Announced that one of her priorities—for compliance, investigations, and litigation—is to defend the “biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women’s rights to single-sex spaces at work.”
• Ended the use of the “X” gender marker during the EEOC intake process for filing a charge of discrimination.
• Directed the modification of the charge of discrimination and related forms to remove “Mx.”...

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