Current ENDA Language Regarding Transgender Workers Revealed, Concerns Mount

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Current ENDA Language Regarding Transgender Workers Revealed, Concerns Mount
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Rebecca Juro
May 4, 2010 4:00 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/05/current_enda_language_regarding_transgender_worker.php


Among the key points:

* Employers will not be permitted to force a transgender employee to use a bathroom that is opposite of their gender identity, but they also will not be obligated to allow that employee to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity, as long as (currently undefined) reasonable accommodations are made. In other words, employers will be allowed to segregate transgender employees and create the modern equivalent of "Whites Only" and "Negro" bathroom facilities specifically intended to exclude Transgender-Americans from the rest of the workforce.