EEOC Says Army Violated Title VII by Barring Transgender Worker From Women’s Restroom

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found that the Department of the Army violated the sex discrimination provisions of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act when it prohibited a male-to-female transgender civilian employee from using her workplace’s common restroom for women, attorneys for the employee announced April 8 (Lusardi v. McHugh, E.E.O.C., 0120133395, 4/1/15).

Overturning a final agency decision, the EEOC April 1 found direct evidence that the Army barred Tamara Lusardi from using a restroom open to her female co-workers, and instead restricted her to a single-user executive restroom that lacked shower facilities, because of ...