Originally published at: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/trump-eeoc-dei-gender
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has directed agency officials to compile a list of cases in line with her own personal priorities for the agency, two sources familiar with the matter tell Talking Points Memo. Those priorities include “defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights” and “rooting out…
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The former priority is mostly grounded in ascientific fantasy – there is no ‘binary reality’ in the biological basis of sex and gender, a reality that exists on a spectrum among humans (w/ quirks here and there) and can be wildly different or fluid in other species – and the latter is not a thing unless by ‘unlawful’ she is referring to the history of favoring Whites which seems doubtful given Ms Lucas’s own history.
ETA: I am asked now and then, often by former students, why Republicans or reactionaries in general seem so opposed to science and usually answer that AFAIK they do not oppose science if it agrees with them or is under their control: the problem for them is that science is, in principle if not always in reality, a source of authority outside their own and authoritarians cannot tolerate that for rather obvious reasons; there can be only one authority.
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Fuck their hate. I hope I am wrong about what happens after you die, I hope they are right, and I hope they go to their hell sooner rather than later.
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I smell a bigoted toy head.
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Hey look! It’s one of the wives from the Handmaid’s Tale.
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When do the lawsuits start?
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I’m sure @rascal_crone will suggest this is better posted in No Accounting for Taste, but what the hell is up with these GOP gals and their overly textured (i.e. burlap) jackets?!?!
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That would be the Chanel boucle influence.
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I’d call is amuse boucle 
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I love all this antisemitism BS from a badministration that said, “There were good people on both sides.”
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Don’t let this poor woman near a forest. It’s not uncommon for mushrooms to have dozens of sexes. Trichaptum mushrooms have more than 17,000 gender alleles.
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One of the go-to tactics emerging from the Trump regime is to make agencies incompetent or to distract them (and spend their resources) on issues that are peripheral to their core mission. That’s easier than the political fight required to get rid of some of them.
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She isn’t properly veiled, so she can shut the fuck up already.
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There are myriad horrible racist, bigoted people in this country, and trump seems to have found a exemplary members of that group to be the head of each of the executive agencies. Nothing but the worst people.
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Okay. What % masculine or feminine or other (please describe) was your mother? Your father? Or was your zygote formed in some other way than by receiving genetic material from two individuals?
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Biological note: Plant genetics is weird. Often beyond weird. Gregor Mendel was incredibly lucky with his choice of experimental plants. The rest of us are just foolish to compare plant genetics with human genetics. And that goes double (or more) for the fungi and microorganisms.
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His tactic has worked well on the Democratic Party, too. The brand has changed from “defender of the working class” to “those people who are so concerned about what potty you get to use.”
Yes, I see the irony. But the ability of the Democratic Party to explain its positions has left a lot to be desired.
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Not quite sure what you are getting at with that commentary, but the answer is that your parentage doesn’t matter, because many of the intersex and related developmental problems (turners/klinefelters, androgen insensitivity, congenital adrenal hyperplasia etc) occur in the individual, not their parents.
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A recent email to EEOC staff reviewed by TPM describes Lucas’s priorities, and requests agency staff curate lists of cases in line with those priorities. The priorities are listed as “rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination; protecting American workers from anti-American national origin discrimination; defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women’s rights to single sex spaces at work; protecting workers from religious bias and harassment, including antisemitism; and remedying other areas of recent under-enforcement.”
In my first read-through, I interpreted that to mean white women deserved special parking spaces at work. It’s a bizarre way to frame the issue of bathrooms and gender identity. It seems like an unhealthy obsession to me.
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Pushing Trump regime culture war priorities are key to hiding the real agenda from the dumb as dirt low information MAGA cultists: stripping millions of health care, food aid, raising taxes on the poor and middle class, massive corruption, along with inflationary tariff taxes, and ruinous tax cuts for the ultra rich.
“Look! A squirrel!”
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