Consider yourself lucky: At least none of your managers have ever been accused of causing a male employee to start wearing women’s clothes.
The EEOC recently looked into a sexual harassment charge against Wall Street firm SAC Capital. A former employee claimed his boss forced him to take female hormones (apparently, to help him do his job better). That caused him to start wearing women’s clothes at the office and damaged his relationship with his wife.
The company denied the allegations (duh). The EEOC stepped in to investigate last year.
The investigation has now been dropped. According to the EEOC, the agency was “unable to conclude that the information obtained establishes violations of the statutes.” In other words, they aren’t buying the guy’s story.
The employee now has the option to sue on his own, though we don’t know if the suit will get very far. Stranger things have certainly happened, and it’s always possible the EEOC was wrong. We’ll let you know if the guy gets his day in court.
