The agency’s decision to drop at least six cases raises doubts about whether workplace protections will continue for transgender and gender-nonconforming workers. Signaling a major shift in civil rights enforcement,

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cited President Donald Trump’s day-one executive order that ordered federal departments to recognize sex as an unchangeable binary.

The requests by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission mark a major departure from its prior interpretation of civil rights law.

The EEOC, citing executive orders targeting gender identity, is aiming to dismiss half a dozen cases, marking a reversal in U.S. civil rights enforcement.