Summary
Karen Ortiz, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) administrative judge, defied Trump administration policies limiting LGBTQ+ protections by urging colleagues to resist “illegal mandates.”
After sending a mass email criticizing leadership, her email was deleted, and she faced disciplinary action.
Ortiz’s stand gained widespread online support but little public backing from colleagues, who fear retaliation. Experts say federal employees often stay silent to protect their jobs.
Ortiz, prepared for potential fallout, sees her actions as protected whistleblower activity and remains committed to civil rights advocacy, regardless of her job security.
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I mean to an outsider- the Red, Pink Lavender, Scares, McCarthyism, slavery, war on drugs, terrorism, citizens united, world police, Vietnam, jim crow/segregation, prohibition, womens suffrage, strikebreaking, company towns… are all examples of freedoms being restricted by the government and applauded by the press and culture at large at the time, and later reflected on as a terrible thing.
Civil Disobedience has always been anti-American.
I’m from a company town. I had no idea that was ever seen as a bad thing. Locally, we saw it as a source of pride. Never heard anything bad about it.
I mean I’m thinking more of Pullman when I listed it - extremely dictatorial governance about what you can buy, where you can live, what religion you can practice and full control over the economic microcosm to the point where people cannot leave because they are paid in scrip, and civil disobedience was punishable by death
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what we did to snowden and manning was a damn shame. there is so much on the last two decades to be ashamed of. smh.
Hey buddy, while I share your sentiment, only we’re allowed to shit on our own country. You can go fuck yourself.
This is not rogue. DOGE and the president are rogue. This person is following the law.
Title should be:
Meet the federal worker who did not blindly follow rogue president: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
Ortiz’s stand gained widespread online support but little public backing from colleagues, who fear retaliation. Experts say federal employees often stay silent to protect their jobs.
Welcome to doing the right thing.
Political activism is full of people that stand up to fuckery, only to get silence.
Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. It just means it takes time. And frequency also matters. Keep up the pressure. Today is this wonderful lady. Next week it’ll be another person. Then another. Then another.
thanks Ortiz for doing more than even Biden ever would have done during any of his time as a politician
maybe real Democrats do exist
He’s gone. Let it go.
Nah he can still win in 2028
Thank You, Justice Ortiz!!
This smells of American patriotism.
One administrative judge at Equal Employment Opportunity Commission speaks out for equal employment opportunity, as the Commission turns the other way.
