In early May I shared OSHA partners with NCTE re: transgender worker safety.
Here's a paragraph from that piece:
For its part, OSHA will promote and disseminate a bulletin developed in conjunction with NCTE of recommended best practices for restroom access for transgender workers. NCTE will disseminate general OSHA information on a quarterly basis vis its website and provide opportunities for OSHA representatives to speak at NCTE events.
On Monday
OSHA issued formal guidance on transgender bathroom usage in the workplace.
Transgender employees should have access to the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity.
--OSHA Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers
Restricting employees to using only restrooms that are not consistent with their gender identity, or segregating them from other workers by requiring them to use gender-neutral or other specific restrooms, singles those employees out and may make them fear for their physical safety.
Bathroom restrictions can result in employees avoiding using restrooms entirely while at work, which can lead to potentially serious physical injury or illness.
Regardless of the physical layout of a worksite, all employers need to find solutions that are safe and convenient and respect transgender employees.
OSHA has been regulating bathrooms for more than 40 years now; Regulation 1910.141, issued in 1972, already requires employers to provide “toilet rooms separate for each sex.” OSHA is now clarifying that the question of whether a user of said room is male or female should be left, under “model practices,” entirely up to that person, and that no employee should be asked to use a segregated transgender-only bathroom facility.
--Politico
No employee should be asked to provide “medical or legal documentation” establishing gender identity in order to gain access to the Men’s or Ladies’ room. In other words, trans people should use whatever restroom they want.
--OSHA and EEOC
And though it might be a footnote to history now, with that issue decided, the most emotional argument against ratifying the ERA also just went spinning down the drain.
--Timothy Noah, Politico