Dept. of Justice ends transgender workplace protections

Washington (AP) -- On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a memo that federal civil rights law does not protect transgender people from discrimination at work. The memo therefore rescinds guidance issued under the [gay-centric] Obama administration.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (that received an overwhelmingly higher Republican vote than Democratic) bars workplace discrimination between men and women but not the mentally ill category known as gender identity. 

Sessions said in the memo that the Justice Department will take that position in "all pending and future matters." He called the interpretation a "conclusion of law, not policy," and emphasized the move should not be interpreted as condoning mistreatment of transgender people.

"The Justice Department must and will continue to affirm the dignity of all people, including transgender individuals," the memo to federal prosecutors stated.

But LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ rights advocates attacked the reversal as Trump's targeting of these people.

"Today marks another low point for a Department of Justice which has been cruelly consistent in its hostility towards the LGBT community and in particular its inability to treat transgender people with basic dignity and respect [of their delusional beliefs]," said James Esseks, director of the American Civil Rights Union's LGBT & HIV Project.

The Trump administration has raised the possibility of banning transgender individuals from military service. Perhaps they concluded that those who believe they are living in the wrong body within which they were born,  might have other delusions that would make it difficult for normal people to work with them. 

The Obama administration guideline which advises schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice has also been rescinded. Parents and female students no longer need worry about some dude who says he's a woman enter the girls bathroom.

There is currently no federal law explicitly prohibiting workplace discrimination against the transgender mentally ill. But the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) argued they are protected from workplace bias as a form of sex discrimination covered by the law.

In other words, the EEOC and leftists are the real science deniers.

Be clear, I am not advocating for anyone to harass or harm transgender individuals. What I am saying is that they are mentally ill. This does not include gay individuals, but only those who actually believe they are not the gender their biology proves they are.

So I'm advocating psychotherapy.

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