HHS pronoun mandate [aka pronoun persondate] forces employees to 'deny reality,' violates law: legal eagle

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A new gender pronoun mandate has been instituted by the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) that requires employees to deny reality and validate the leadership's mental illness. A Heritage Foundation expert who is also a former HHS employee says the mandate violates employee rights and will result in terminations for so called "misgendering."

[H/T Fox News Digital]

"HHS and the federal government is requiring its employees to speak falsehoods," Roger Severino, the Heritage Foundation’s vice president for domestic policy and the former head of civil rights at HHS during the Trump administration, told Fox News Digital. By 'falsehoods,' Severino means outright lies and he initially broke the story on X last week. 

He said that HHS "imposed a transgender pronoun mandate on its employees who will now be forced to deny biological realities with their own words or face firing" and he included a screenshot of an email sent to employees at the department.

Severino told the outlet that the First Amendment protects federal employees from being required to speak falsehoods, being compelled to adopt a state-approved ideology, and requiring people to deny their own faith.

"These policies would require all of those things," said Harvard Law School graduate Severino.

"All employees should be addressed [by] the names and pronouns they use to describe themselves," the email to HHS employees stated as part of its push for "Gender Identity and Non-Discrimination Guidance" that it says protects "employee rights and protections related to gender identity." 

For example, even though Rachel Levine isn't a real Admiral [rear or otherwise] he gets to call himself a woman, wear dresses, training bras, pearls, sensible shoes, and deny biology. If you refuse to refer to him as her, or she, or whatever pronouns he wants you to call him, you're fired faster than Rashida Tlaib can shout an anti-Semitic slogan.

Severino said the policy pressure started with two White House executive orders in January 2021 and June 2022. They were framed to combat "gender discrimination" on the base of "gender identity."

"All applicants and employees should be addressed by the names and pronouns they use to describe themselves. Using correct names and pronouns helps foster workplaces free of discrimination and harassment," the U.S. Office of Personnel Management guidance states. So taken to an extreme, if a female applicant wanted to be addressed as "King Henry," for example, others must address her as such. If, say, a male applicant wanted to be called "Superslut Mary," well that's his prerogative. 

"This practice also creates an inclusive work environment where all applicants and employees are treated with dignity. The isolated and inadvertent use of an incorrect name or pronoun will generally not constitute unlawful harassment, but, as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has explained, continued intentional use of an incorrect name or pronoun (or both) could, in certain circumstances, contribute to an unlawful hostile work environment."

The lunatics have taken over the asylum. 

In an unlisted YouTube video linked in the email to HHS employees last week that features Assistant HHS Secretary and Rear Admiral Rachel Levine, who thinks he's a woman, says "who you know yourself to be is valid."

With that rationale, if a person with a severe mental disorder believes him or herself to be a flower, it should be perfectly reasonable to water him or her several times a week. How you do the watering is open to your creative thinking.

Severino explained to Fox News Digital that the "Orwellian" policy means that "misgendering" someone would qualify as violating anti-discrimination law which "gets you fired."

The video also states that employees "can wear clothing" and "use restrooms" based on what gender they identify as regardless of the genitals and chromosomes.

"Men who identify as female have the right to get naked in front of female colleagues in the locker room," Severino said about how this rule relates to HHS locker rooms and bathrooms. Let's not forget how Lia Thomas, a dude who says he's a woman, got sexually aroused in the woman's locker room at swim meets in which he beat actual women.

"It used to be that if you allowed a man to get naked in front of a woman in the workplace that is instantly a violation of civil rights law," Severino said. "That's the quintessential hostile work environment, subjecting women to that. Now, the policy says to the women who may be uncomfortable with that situation, they're the ones who have to leave."

Severino, who said it was "breathtaking" the Biden administration would unveil this policy, said that there are "strong arguments" that employees have legal recourse against policies like this and can "exercise their rights." And hopefully they will by bringing these anti-free speech cretins to court.

"Governments cannot compel speech and certainly cannot compel false speech," Severino said, citing West Virginia vs. Barnette in which even though children being told to say the pledge of allegiance during World War II was a good thing, the Supreme Court ruled that parents and students have a right to dissent from that view. 

Some of those students are now teaching today's students how America is the problem while they support the terrorists.

"We protect the right of political dissent and here it's a pledge of allegiance to the Rainbow flag that's been essentially required," Severino said.

Severino also said that employees have a "right to their faith" and "your boss cannot force you to deny your faith as a condition of working there." 

Tell that to the judge, because it's going to go that far.

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