EEOC allows sex-segregated facilities in federal workspaces

Federal workspaces can still draw the line between men and women’s restrooms. On February 26, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act permits federal agencies to maintain single-sex bathrooms and similar intimate spaces and to exclude transgender employees from opposite-sex facilities. In an accompanying press release, EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas restated the majority’s view, declaring that “Biology is not bigotry.”... By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP