The law is clear, said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says federal civil rights law does not protect transgender people from discrimination at work.
That’s a reversal of an Obama-era directive that interpreted the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as prohibiting workplace discrimination against transgender employees. In a memo to the nation’s federal prosecutors, Sessions says the law bars discrimination between men and women but does not extend to gender identity.
Sessions says “this is a conclusion of law, not policy.” And he says the move should not be construed to condone mistreatment of transgender people.
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