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| Region | Mississippi |
| Issue | LGBT employment discrimination |
| Status | Sexual orientation only |
| Start Date | Jun 23, 2026 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | A federal investigator with the EEOC has confirmed in an email sent to Flint Del Sol; a transgender man, that the agency is “not permitted to conduct/continue any investigation regarding transgender cases, and that is coming from the chain of command” the Advocate reports. Select states have explicit employment anti-discrimination laws in place for sexual orientation and gender identity. The federal government currently does not enforce the Bostock decision from 2020. As early as June 5th, the EEOC released an NEP with the following priorities; "Remedying DEI-related race and sex discrimination, Protecting workers from anti-American national origin discrimination, Defending women’s rights to single-sex spaces at work and workers’ rights to express the binary nature of sex, and Protecting workers’ religious liberty rights to receive religious accommodations and be free from religious discrimination, harassment, and related retaliation." The NEP also made a clarification of Bostock stating; "with respect to (i) employees’ right to single-sex intimate spaces; (ii) employers’ right to provide the same; (iii) employees’ and employers’ right to express the binary nature of sex; and (iv) to employees’ right to religious accommodations for sincerely held religious beliefs" On June 29th, the EEOC voted to rescind "Affirmative Action Appropriate Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Amended" and "Compliance Manual Section 607 on Affirmative Action" |
| Sources | https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-eeoc-transgender-investigations https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-votes-rescind-affirmative-action-interpretive-guidelines-and-related-compliance https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2026-06/NEP_-_signed.pdf |
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edited by mineszilla. Just copying what I have on the US entry
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Sexual orientation only |
| Special Status | Varies by Region | Sexual orientation only |
| Description | Clarksdale, Holly Springs, Jackson, Magnolia, and Rosedale provides local discrimination protections in employment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Otherwise, no statewide protections exist. | A federal investigator with the EEOC has confirmed in an email sent to Flint Del Sol; a transgender man, that the agency is “not permitted to conduct/continue any investigation regarding transgender cases, and that is coming from the chain of command” the Advocate reports. Select states have explicit employment anti-discrimination laws in place for sexual orientation and gender identity. The federal government currently does not enforce the Bostock decision from 2020. As early as June 5th, the EEOC released an NEP with the following priorities; "Remedying DEI-related race and sex discrimination, Protecting workers from anti-American national origin discrimination, Defending women’s rights to single-sex spaces at work and workers’ rights to express the binary nature of sex, and Protecting workers’ religious liberty rights to receive religious accommodations and be free from religious discrimination, harassment, and related retaliation." The NEP also made a clarification of Bostock stating; "with respect to (i) employees’ right to single-sex intimate spaces; (ii) employers’ right to provide the same; (iii) employees’ and employers’ right to express the binary nature of sex; and (iv) to employees’ right to religious accommodations for sincerely held religious beliefs" On June 29th, the EEOC voted to rescind "Affirmative Action Appropriate Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Amended" and "Compliance Manual Section 607 on Affirmative Action" |
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| Sources | https://mapresearch.org/equality-profiles/MS/ | https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-eeoc-transgender-investigations https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-votes-rescind-affirmative-action-interpretive-guidelines-and-related-compliance https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2026-06/NEP_-_signed.pdf |
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0 | Original entry | |
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| Status | Varies by Region |
| Start Date | Jun 23, 2026 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | Clarksdale, Holly Springs, Jackson, Magnolia, and Rosedale provides local discrimination protections in employment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Otherwise, no statewide protections exist. |
| Sources | https://mapresearch.org/equality-profiles/MS/ |