Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has once again sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, and other members of President Joe Biden’s administration in an effort to stop guidance from going into effect that the attorney general says will unlawfully require employers to implement “transgender mandates.”
Paxton announced the lawsuit—filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas in Amarillo—in an Aug. 15 press release.
The legal challenge centers on federal guidance published in April that extends Title VII workforce protections for transgender employees by clarifying the definition of harassment under federal law….