News & Analysis as of

Discrimination › Transgender › Gender Discrimination

Discrimination is prejudicial treatment related to (or inappropriate consideration of) an individual's actual or perceived membership in a particular class, group or category, such as an individual's... more +
Discrimination is prejudicial treatment related to (or inappropriate consideration of) an individual's actual or perceived membership in a particular class, group or category, such as an individual's race, religion, gender, age, to name a few.  less -
Seyfarth Shaw LLP

New Visa Restrictions Target Transgender Athletes, Raising Title IX and Compliance Concerns for Colleges

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

On February 24, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed the State Department to deny visas to transgender athletes if their sex marker does not align with their sex assigned at birth. His directive, 25 STATE 15576,...more

Littler

Trump Bans Transgender Women Athletes from Participating in Athletics

Littler on

In the latest slew of executive orders affecting educational institutions, on February 5, 2025, President Trump signed an order titled, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” This order states, “it is the policy of the United...more

Miller Nash LLP

New Executive Order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” Creates Challenging Questions for Oregon School Districts

Miller Nash LLP on

On February 5, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) entitled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports. This EO expresses strong disapproval of policies allowing transgender girls and women to participate on girls’...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

School District Sanctioned For Failing To Preserve Evidence After Receiving EEOC Charge

Jackson Lewis P.C. on

A Maryland federal district court’s decision underscores the need to preserve evidence once notified of a potential lawsuit and the significant consequences for not doing so. In Eller v. Prince George’s Cty. Pub. Sch.,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

New California Labor and Employment Laws for 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on

• The California Legislature passed numerous labor and employment bills that Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in 2017. • Many of the new laws relate to wages and hours, leaves and benefits, hiring practices, health and...more

FordHarrison

Does Transgender Military Ban Signal New Direction of Trump Administration on LGBTQ Rights?

FordHarrison on

On July 26, 2017, President Trump announced via Twitter that the military, arguably the country’s largest employer, will no longer allow transgender people to serve, thus breaking from the Obama Administration’s lift of the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

New California Transgender Regulations: Employer Do's & Don'ts

Ballard Spahr LLP on

California continues to forge a trail for gender identity protections in the United States. On July 1, 2017, the Fair Employment and Housing Council enacted new regulations addressing transgender issues that broaden the scope...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best in Law: What to do to Comply with Transgender Laws - New California Laws Took Effect July 1

Best Best & Krieger LLP on

California is continuing to be a leader on emerging civil rights issues. Back in 2004, California enacted laws to protect transgender workers. Transgender issues have become a front-burner topic.   On the national scene,...more

Littler

North Carolina Enacts Law Repealing "Bathroom" Bill But Limiting Local Anti-Discrimination Laws

Littler on

Last week, North Carolina lawmakers repealed the state’s controversial House Bill 2 (“HB 2”), which had required individuals to use the public bathroom that corresponds with the sex on their birth certificate, along with...more

FordHarrison

Second and Eleventh Circuits Rule They are Bound by Prior Precedent that Title VII Does Not Prohibit Sexual Orientation...

FordHarrison on

As these authors have previously reported, several cases analyzing whether sexual orientation is protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have been winding their way through the courts. ...more

Littler

Dear Littler: How Should I Handle Customer Concerns about a Transgender Employee?

Littler on

Dear Littler: We have a transgender employee at work, Sarah, who identifies and presents as a female. She is in the process of transitioning and still occasionally exhibits traditionally “male” physical attributes. A client...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Supreme Court Remands Transgender Rights Case to Court of Appeals After Trump Administration Withdraws Obama Era Guidance

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 6, 2017, the Supreme Court remanded a highly anticipated transgender rights case back to the Court of Appeals after the Trump Administration withdrew Obama era guidance regarding the rights of...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

SCOTUS, New Dear Colleague Letter Muddle Transgender Issues Under Title IX

Ballard Spahr LLP on

The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education have withdrawn existing guidance on transgender students and issued a new Dear Colleague Letter calling into question whether Title IX requires that schools permit students to use...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

DOE and DOJ Withdrawl of “Dear Colleague” Letter Leaves FERPA’s Guidance Unresolved

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on

On February 22, 2017, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) withdrew their May 13, 2016 “Dear Colleague” letter that provided guidance on steps to protect transgender students under Title IX of the...more

Littler

Annual Report on EEOC Developments – Fiscal Year 2016

Littler on

This Annual Report on EEOC Developments—Fiscal Year 2016 (hereafter “Report”), our sixth annual Report, is designed as a comprehensive guide to significant EEOC developments over the past fiscal year. The Report does not...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

LGBT Rights Up in the Air

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on

Changes that may impact LGBT rights in the workplace have employers spinning. This week’s news about the Trump administration’s rescission of federal guidance allowing transgender students to use bathrooms corresponding to...more

Franczek P.C.

Administration Withdraws Transgender Guidance While Considering Legal Issues

Franczek P.C. on

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) jointly issued a statement rescinding the guidance on transgender students’ rights under Title IX issued to school districts nationwide in May. The prior...more

FordHarrison

Trump Administration Withdraws Motion Seeking to Limit Court's Stay of Obama's Transgender Bathroom Guidance in Public Schools

FordHarrison on

There has been much speculation about the Trump administration’s position with respect to LGBTQ rights. We may now have our first glimpse. Just days after Jeff Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General, the government has...more

Fisher Phillips

Trump DOJ Drops Obama Administration’s Transgender Bathroom Fight

Fisher Phillips on

Last week, the Justice Department withdrew the pending legal challenge that had sought to reverse the federal court decision blocking the implementation of the Obama administration’s transgender bathroom policy for public...more

Proskauer - Government Contractor Compliance...

Trump Administration Will Retain LGBT Protections for Government Contractor Employees

Proskauer - Government Contractor Compliance... on

Although the first eleven days of the Trump Administration have been full of activity and controversy, federal government contractors have been waiting to see if President Trump will undo or modify the compliance obligations...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

The Employment Law Authority - January/February 2017

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on

A Moving Target: The Not So Final Overtime Rule - On November 22, 2016, a federal judge for the Eastern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) from...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Pennsylvania Court Says Title VII Prohibits Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (‘EEOC”) has been aggressively advancing its position that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation even though sexual...more

Snell & Wilmer

Transgender Issues in the Workplace: Legal Issues and Considerations for Companies

Snell & Wilmer on

Over this past year, there has been an increasing amount of attention on transgender persons both in the media and in the law. Garnering particular attention, North Carolina passed Senate Bill 2 which prohibits students and...more

Conn Maciel Carey LLP

EEOC and OSHA Provide Guidance to Employers on Transgender Rights in the Workplace

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on

In the last few months, hardly a day has gone by without some news regarding transgender bathroom access. Perhaps the catalyst for the increased attention on this issue was North Carolina’s passage of its controversial H.B....more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

The Division of Human Rights Proposes Regulations to Expand Anti-Discrimination Protections to Transgender Individuals

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on

After several unsuccessful attempts to pass the Gender Expression Nondiscrimination Act, which would have extended the nondiscrimination protections in the New York Human Rights Law to transgender individuals, Governor Cuomo...more

47 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2
Next »

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
Sign up Log in
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide