A Win for Reality: EEOC Strikes Down Radical Bathroom Mandates
Sanity and safety just won a major battle in Washington.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a landmark federal sector appellate decision on Thursday, recognizing that federal agencies have the right to maintain sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers. For a decade, the Lusardi precedent forced federal employees to ignore biological reality. This new ruling strikes it down.
Fantastic decision from the EEOC today holding that trans-identifying Fed employees don’t have special access rights to bathrooms, showers, or lockers of the opposite sex. This is a HUGE victory for common sense, the rule of law, and women’s spaces in particular. pic.twitter.com/Q07WbmP11L
— Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino_) February 27, 2026
The EEOC confirmed what every common-sense Ohioan knows: Biology is not bigotry. Federal agencies can now legally exclude men from women’s most intimate spaces.
We have seen the trauma caused when these boundaries are erased. In Xenia, a man identifying as a woman was charged with public indecency after exposing himself in the women's locker room at the local YMCA while underage girls were present.
In Loudoun County, Virginia, the human cost of these policies has been likewise traumatic. A male student utilized access to a girls’ restroom to brutally assault a female student—an atrocity the school district actively tried to conceal. Further evidence suggests officials manipulated records to hide a separate incident involving a "trans-identifying" girl filming boys in their locker room.
This decision is a return to the rule of law and the protection of human dignity for men, women, boys, and girls.
Read the full EEOC decision here: EEOC Newsroom
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