FreeState Justice, a nonprofit providing free legal services to Maryland's LGBTQ+ community, has filed a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over the EEOC's new policy of refusing to enforce nondiscrimination protections for transgender workers. The plaintiff argues that the EEOC’s non-enforcement policy violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Administrative Procedure Act, as well as the precedent set by Bostock v. Clayton County. FreeState Justice requested that the court declare the EEOC's non-enforcement policy unlawful and require the EEOC to fulfill its statutory duty to protect transgender workers from discrimination.
