Texas sues Biden admin for the First Amendment right to misgender trans people while they work

[riversedge]

Good article. It gives some context to this issue--like other Repug lawsuits and a bit of history.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R)



Texas sues Biden admin for the First Amendment right to misgender trans people while they work
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton really wants the state to misgender trans workers. So he took his case to federal court
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/09/texas-sues-biden-admin-first-amendment-right-misgender-trans-people-work/



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By Alex Bollinger Tuesday, September 21, 2021



Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), saying that the federal agency’s guidance on LGBTQ rights is “extreme federal overreach” that violates Texas’s “sovereign right” to determine workplace policies, specifically when it comes to LGBTQ job discrimination protections in the workplace.

The lawsuit goes so far as to claim that employers like the state of Texas have a First Amendment right to refer to transgender people by the wrong names and pronouns.



To promote the lawsuit, Paxton claimed that letting trans people use the correct restroom at work will lead to violence against women and child molestation, a claim not made in the suit itself.

“States should be able to choose protection of privacy for their employers over subjective views of gender, and this illegal guidance puts many women and children at risk,” he said in a statement...................

[Lovie777]

1. Slavery mentality all over again . ..

pertinent part, LGBTQ considered not a part of Human race but a subject of cruel control.

[Walleye]

2. Part of their plan to make the government dysfunctional is to clog up courts with frivolous lawsuits

[CaptainTruth]

3. Lots of people bash Florida, for good reason, but it seems like Texas is more F'd up.

Texas Republicans are fighting a raging culture war.

[Aristus]

4. I have a number of transgender patients.

It costs me nothing to refer to them by their preferred pronouns, and to treat them with kindness.

Why do some people have to be such monsters?

[The Unmitigated Gall]

5. Fuckthugliscums...

Fuck these people. Returning Texas to the modern world is going to be harder than rehabilitating East Germany.

[Skittles]

6. gawd

anyone else notice that the only time repukes seem to "care" about women and children is when they are demonizing trans folk?