Republican lawmakers are seeking clarification from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra regarding the department’s new guidelines directing employees to use the “preferred pronouns” of transgender colleagues.
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) is leading this inquiry, joined by other GOP legislators, in a letter addressed to HHS Secretary Becerra. The letter, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News on Wednesday, raises concerns about the constitutionality of the guidance and its impact on employees with religious beliefs.
The letter states, “We recently learned that the Biden Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is compelling political speech and violating the religious liberty rights of HHS employees by imposing a transgender pronoun mandate on your employees. We write to express our strong opposition to your illegal and unconstitutional transgender pronoun mandate, the so-called ‘HHS Gender Non-Discrimination and Inclusion Policy,’ which is a violation of the First Amendment rights of HHS employees.”