The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit over the discharge of an employee who refused to comply with a Michigan funeral home’s sex-specific dress code, which requires employees to dress in a manner sensitive to grieving family members and friends. The EEOC attempted to force the business to allow a biologically male employee to wear a female uniform while interacting with the public.
Don’t the wishes of funeral home customers matter at all? Maybe they just don’t want to have a hairy guy show up at Grandma’s funeral in a miniskirt? Sure, some may not care, and might enjoy the distraction. But others certainly would feel differently.
At the very least, if it is truly necessary to force funeral home customers to accept hairy men in miniskirts, Congress should debate the topic and pass a law accordingly. But trying to creatively reinterpret a 1964 sex-discrimination law to cover this situation (and impose heretofore unsuspected regulations on employers) seems absurd.
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Don’t the wishes of funeral home customers matter at all? Maybe they just don’t want to have a hairy guy show up at Grandma’s funeral in a miniskirt? Sure, some may not care, and might enjoy the distraction. But others certainly would feel differently.
At the very least, if it is truly necessary to force funeral home customers to accept hairy men in miniskirts, Congress should debate the topic and pass a law accordingly. But trying to creatively reinterpret a 1964 sex-discrimination law to cover this situation (and impose heretofore unsuspected regulations on employers) seems absurd.