A coalition of 18 Republican state attorneys general sued to block the enforcement of the EEOC’s new workplace harassment guidance, claiming it illegally broadens the scope of a federal anti-discrimination law’s gender identity protections.
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidelines finalized on April 29 are “an exemplar of recent federal agency efforts to enshrine sweeping gender-identity mandates without congressional consent,” the group led by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
The Administrative Procedure Act suit accuses the EEOC of engaging in an “end-run around …
