Via Josh Helfgott of Gay News
BREAKING
A trans teacher spent three years fighting his workplace discrimination case at a federal agency. This week an investigator emailed him the reason it was dead: "We are not permitted to conduct/continue any investigation regarding transgender cases, and that is coming from the chain of command."
His name is Flint Del Sol. He taught for more than a decade in a Southern California school district. He built an LGBTQ+ student library. He advised an LGBTQ+ student club. And then the threats started.
Threatening letters were mailed to his school and dropped in his mailbox. People called in threats of violence. One day there was a bomb threat to his classroom. He found out when he walked in and saw a police officer waiting to scan the room for an explosive device. They didn't cancel class. They didn't send him home. They moved him to another room and told him to keep teaching.
A district employee went through his classroom library and pulled the LGBTQ+ books. He left the district and filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in November 2023, refiling in May 2024. The agency accepted it. They told him the investigation was starting.
Then the rules changed. In January 2025, Trump signed an executive order ordering the federal government to recognize only two sexes. The EEOC moved fast — dropping its own pending lawsuits for trans workers, scrapping guidance that said misgendering could be unlawful harassment, and routing trans complaints to headquarters.
So when an investigator called Del Sol with the news, he asked her to confirm it in writing. She did. The email said his right-to-sue letter would arrive within weeks, and he'd have exactly 90 days to use it — meaning the government just handed him the bill for enforcing his own rights.
Here's the part they can't dodge: the Supreme Court already ruled in Bostock that firing someone for being transgender is illegal under federal law. The agency tasked with enforcing that law looked at a man who taught through a bomb threat and told him he wasn't worth protecting.
"I was being told outright that I wasn't worth protecting," Del Sol said.
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A trans teacher spent three years fighting his workplace discrimination case at a federal agency. This week an investigator emailed him the reason it was dead: "We are not permitted to conduct/continue any investigation regarding transgender cases, and that is coming from the chain of command."