Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden's administration over federal protections for transgender people in the workplace, The Hill reports.
Paxton filed the lawsuit on Thursday in federal court along with the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Justice Department. The suit concerns the guidelines issued by the EEOC, which are not legally binding, which iterate that denying employees access to bathrooms or refusing to use their preferred pronouns constitutes unlawful harassment in the workplace.
Paxton and the Heritage Foundation claim that these guidelines were unlawfully added and request that the court block them permanently.
"The Biden-Harris Administration is attempting yet again to rewrite federal law through undemocratic and illegal agency action. This time, they are unlawfully weaponizing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in an attempt to force private businesses and States to implement 'transgender' mandates—and Texas is suing to stop them," Paxton said in a statement on Thursday.
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