Amanda Becker

Washington Correspondent

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When just weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal agency charged with safeguarding civil rights in the workplace withdrew from seven cases it had brought related to gender-identity discrimination, Chai Feldblum took note.

For the last 60 years, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, has investigated and brought cases on behalf of aggrieved workers — at no cost to the workers, and with an eye-popping success rate that is often above 90 percent.

The cases the EEOC withdrew from included those brought on behalf of an Alabama hospitality group worker who alleged their manager said they needed to be “hidden” on the night shift before firing them outright; a

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