Transgender NSA employee files discrimination lawsuit against Trump administrationhttps://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender-nsa-employee-trump-lawsuit 🔗Ryan Adamczeski (23 Dec 2025)
A transgender National Security Agency employee has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it of violating her civil rights.
Sarah O'Neill, an out trans woman who works as a data scientist for the NSA, filed the lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court in Maryland. The suit claims that the Trump administration violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by enforcing executive orders that deny the existence of trans people and force them into single-sex facilities based on their sex assigned at birth.
"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,'" the suit reads, via The Associated Press.
O'Neill's lawsuit states that the order has deprived her of the "right to a workplace free of unlawful harassment" by "prohibiting her from identifying her pronouns as female in written communications" and "barring her from using the women's restroom at work."
The suit cites the 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Bostock v. Clayton, which prevents employment discrimination against trans people under Title VII. The court plainly wrote, "it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex."
