LGBT advocacy groups filed a lawsuit to nullify President Donald Trump's executive order two months ago banning the government from working with contractors that conduct "any form of race or sex stereotyping," including diversity training, Politico reported on Tuesday.
The organizations said they give training to their staff "to prevent and address discrimination against the populations they serve," which includes details "about how systemic racism and implicit bias contribute to health disparities, mortality, and disproportionate criminalization," but Trump's executive order explicitly forbids contractors from using any workplace training "that inculcates in its employees any form of race or sex stereotyping or any form of race or sex scapegoating."
The Trump administration says this type of diversity training amounts to "divisive, anti-American propaganda," according to NPR.
The lawsuit argues that the order violates freedom of speech protections and is overly vague as to what conduct would violate it, Politico reported
The advocacy groups said that if the order is allowed to remain, "more people will fall out of care, become homeless, fail to get tested, decline to take a vaccine when one becomes available, sicken, and even die."
The move comes after the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Urban League, and National Fair Housing Alliance last week also filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the executive order, calling it "chillingly punitive" censorship that violates guarantees of free speech, equal protection, and due process, NPR reported.
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