The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently ruled that federal agencies may maintain single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Federal agencies may keep men out of women’s spaces. Women’s privacy, safety, and sense of modesty depends on it. All agencies under the Trump administration likely will protect women’s spaces.
The Obama and Biden administrations attempted to expand the definition of the word “sex” in federal law to include sexual orientation and “gender identity,” but only Congress can change federal law.
Congress amended the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in 1972 to strengthen the ban against discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. “Sex” is male and female. A man wearing a dress and makeup and pretending to be a woman is a male.
“Today’s opinion is consistent with the plain meaning of ‘sex’ as understood by Congress at the time Title VII was enacted, as well as longstanding civil rights principles: that similarly situated employees must be treated equally,” said EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas.” When it comes to bathrooms, male and female employees are not similarly situated. Biology is not bigotry.”
