One day after a federal judge in Texas expanded a ruling that blocks protections for LGBTQ students in the state in the context of Title IX, Attorney General Ken Paxton has again filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, this time challenging workforce protections for transgender employees.
The lawsuit, submitted on Thursday in federal court, targets the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Justice Department, arguing that the agency's guidelines "purports to preempt the State's sovereign power to enact and abide by its workplace policies" and raises the "forced choice of either changing their policies at taxpayer expenses or ignoring the Guidance and accepting impending enforcement actions and increased costs of litigation and liability."
