US Worker Rights Agency Blocks Gender Identity Cases Under Trump

Jay Redmond loved his job as a child welfare worker in Seattle at the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families. He did it for almost a decade and heard no complaints about his performance, he says. He received glowing annual reviews in 2022 and 2023, around the time his trouble began.

In mid-2022, Redmond filed a report arising from one of his cases, alleging misconduct by a supervisor. He says the complaint was never investigated and afterward the supervisor and other co-workers turned around and “bullied me for years.” Some of that bullying, Redmond says, was related to ...