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A new “Orwellian” mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is forcing employees to “deny reality” and violate a law widely interpreted to prohibit workplace discrimination based on gender identity, a constitutional law expert has told Fox News.
The mandate requires employees to use “preferred pronouns” that correspond with an individual’s preferred gender and prohibits them from using gender-specific terms like “sir” or “ma’am.”
Under the mandate, employees who practice medicine, health care and social services (including those offering mental health counseling) are prohibited from using “discriminatory language” based on a person’s gender identity.
The mandate, which was issued in December, applies to employees, contractors, and grantees of any agency receiving HHS funding.
It’s a violation of federal law to “compel… civilians to abandon their sincerely-held religious beliefs,” commented Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow Molly Whitaker on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight.
“It’s actually compelled speech,” she said of the mandate. “It’s actually telling people how to be able to interact with others in a way that denies reality.”
According to Whitaker, the mandate violates a widely-interpreted interpretation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits workplace discrimination based on gender identity.
“It’s an enduring opinion that…the law should be interpreted to provide protection against discrimination based on gender identity,” Whitaker said. “That’s been interpreted not just by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission but the Justice Department under the Obama Administration. And so, this HHS rule goes further than that, in that it actually requires people to be denied reality in terms of, you know, using gender specific terms.”
Whitaker opined that it is “particularly disconcerting that HHS would require civilians that it funds, to deny reality,” adding that it sends a “really dangerous message that you should try to deny who we are and what we really know to be true.”