Trans NSA employee sues Trump for ordering her coworkers to harass her

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Trans NSA employee sues Trump for ordering her coworkers to harass her

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/trans-nsa-employee-sues-for-ordering-her-coworkers-to-harass-her/ 🔗

Greg Owen (28 Dec 2025)

A transgender employee at the National Security Agency (NSA) is suing the Trump administration over the president's Day One executive order, claiming there are only two "immutable" sexes, male and female.

Sarah O'Neill is a data scientist at the U.S. intelligence agency, which operates under the Department of Defense and is tasked with global information collection.

The lawsuit, filed recently in a U.S. District Court in Maryland, says Trump's order "declares that it is the policy of the United States government to deny Ms. O'Neill's very existence," the Associated Press reports.

As a result of new policies based on Trump's order, O'Neill says the NSA no longer recognizes her trans identity and "right to a workplace free of unlawful harassment," while "prohibiting her from identifying her pronouns as female in written communications" and "barring her from using the women's restroom at work."

The lawsuit contends that those policies and the executive orders that inspired them create a hostile work environment and violate Section VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County states that Section VII prohibits discrimination based on sex applied to gender identity.

The ruling made it illegal nationwide for employers to fire or mistreat employees for being gay or transgender.

"The Executive Order rejects the existence of gender identity altogether, let alone the possibility that someone's gender identity can differ from their sex, which it characterizes as 'gender ideology,'" O'Neil's complaint argues.