EEOC Sues Holiday Inn, Partners for Mishandling Transgender Bias

The EEOC sued the parent company of Holiday Inn Express and seven other affiliated hotel operators, alleging the companies violated federal civil rights laws by subjecting a transgender employee to discrimination and harassment and failing to remedy a hostile work environment.

A supervisor allegedly subjected former hotel housekeeper Dylan Bringuel to slurs, anti-transgender statements, and misgendering, according to the EEOC’s complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Western District of New York. Bringuel said their housekeeping manager repeatedly made offensive comments about Bringuel’s gender identity, including calling them a “transformer;" saying something was “wrong” with transgender people; ...