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Federal agency: Civil Rights Act protects transgender workers
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that interprets and enforces laws against workplace discrimination, ruled Monday that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects transgender workers. The EEOC held that “intentional discrimination against a transgender individual because that person is transgender” was sex discrimination and therefore a…
Paul once criticized equal pay, AIDS patients, sexual harassment victims
In one of his earliest books, the libertarian-leaning Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) explained just how deep his ideology runs, with the Civil Rights Act, equal pay for women, laws protecting workers from sexual harassment and the sufferers of AIDS drawing portions of his ire. Related: Raw Story’s Mike Rogers: Paul…
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