Labor/Employment,
Civil Rights
Mar. 14, 2025
Bostock, Trump 2.0, and the EEOC's attack on transgender rights
By abandoning its obligations to transgender workers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission undermines civil rights protections for everyone.
Sarah Cayer
Associate, Hadsell, Stormer, Renick & Dai LLP
Harvard Law School, 2020
Sarah Cayer earned a B.A. with high honors from Oberlin College in 2015 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 2020. At Harvard she served as an Articles Editor on the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. After law school, she completed a fellowship with Inner City Law Center, where she represented low-income tenants in eviction proceedings. Today, Sarah represents plaintiffs in class action litigation and individual civil right cases.
In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, protests against white supremacist state violence, and the chaotic end to the first Trump administration, Justice Gorsuch wrote the following of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: "To refuse enforcement [of Title VII's prohibition on discrimination because of sex] just because...the parties before us happened to be unpopular at the time of the law's passage, would not only require us to abandon our role as interpreters of statutes;...
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