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Trump Flip-Flops on LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination

September 28, 2017

Via: Workforce
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“As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens. … ”

Those were the words of then nominee Donald J. Trump at least year’s Republican Convention.

What’s missing from those words?

“ … Unless you’re at work. Then you’re screwed.”

Yesterday, Trump’s White House announced that it will urge the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to rule that Title VII does not ban discrimination against gay employees. The court will decide whether, in that Circuit, Title VII’s definition of “sex” includes LGBTQ individuals. (The 7th Circuit has already says that it does.)

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