Tell the EEOC: Don't roll back data collection & protections for LGBTQIA+
workers!
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Dear Friend,

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Pride is a beautiful celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community – of the brave
individuals, the moms and parents past and present, who have fought to
make our country safer, stronger, and more colorful. It’s a time to honor
the joy of living authentically.

Celebrating our joy is vital, but so is paying the rent and buying
groceries. Our families can’t truly thrive when discrimination follows
LGBTQIA+ workers right onto the clock, limiting their financial security. 

That’s why today, on LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day, moms, dads,
gender-expansive parents, caregivers, and allies are raising our
collective voices. We need to stop the discriminatory pay gaps holding our
community back.

➡️ [ [link removed] ]Take action now: Protect LGBTQIA+ workers and demand equal pay!

While data for LGBTQIA+ workers is scarce, research from the Human Rights
Campaign shows that LGBTQIA+ workers earn only about 90 cents for every
dollar the median worker in the U.S. earns. [1]

But the community is not a monolith. When race, sexuality, and gender
identity intersect, the gap widens drastically – Latine LGBTQIA+ workers
and trans women are among the lowest earners in the country. [ [link removed] ]
Discriminatory workplace practices are actively denying families the
economic security they deserve.

This has to end – especially for the next generation. One in four U.S.
high schoolers now identify as non-heterosexual. [ [link removed] ] They are entering the
workforce right now, and we must build a safer, more equitable world for
them.

➡️ [2]Tell the EEOC: Don't roll back data collection and protections for
workers.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is legally
mandated to protect workers from discrimination. Instead, under its
current leadership, the Commission is actively undermining protections in
very damaging ways by:

* Refusing to Enforce the Law: EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas has aligned the
agency with a discriminatory Executive Order, refusing to enforce
employment protections for transgender and nonbinary workers. [ [link removed] ]
* Erasing Critical Guidance: The agency rolled back technical assistance
and rescinded comprehensive 2024 workplace harassment guidance that
explicitly protected workers based on sexual orientation and gender
identity. [ [link removed] ]
* Eliminating the Data: Now, they are moving to halt the 60-year-old
EEO-1 demographic data collection. Without this data, it becomes
nearly impossible to track, prove, and punish systemic pay
discrimination. [ [link removed] ]

We won't let a political agenda dictate the livelihoods of millions of
workers. We are demanding the EEOC fulfill its actual mandate.

When we raise our voices, decision-makers have to listen. Let's make some
noise 🗣️

➡️ [3]Take action now: Protect LGBTQIA+ workers and demand equal pay!

Please share this with your friends and family so they can take action
with us, too.

Thank you!

– Taylor, Ruth, Kristin and the whole MomsRising.org & MamásConPoder Team

P.S. – Lived experiences are our most powerful tool for change. Have you
ever experienced pay discrimination? [4]Please share your story with us.
We deliver these real, personal accounts directly to lawmakers to show
those in power exactly what is at stake and why change cannot wait.

References:
[1] [2] [5]Human Rights Campaign | The Wage Gap Among LGBTQ+ Workers in
the United States
[3] [6]News Center | One in Four U.S. Adolescents Identify as
Non-Heterosexual, Comparative Analysis Finds
[4] [ [link removed] ]PBS News | EEOC moves to drop transgender discrimination cases to
comply with Trump's order
[5] [ [link removed] ]U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | EEOC Commission
Votes to Rescind 2024 Harassment Guidance
[6] [ [link removed] ]U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Removing Gender
Ideology and Restoring the EEOC’s Role of Protecting Women in the
Workplace


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