According to a report by the New York Times,
the Trump administration is again looking at ways to attack the rights
of transgender people in the United States. A memo released by the
Department of Health and Human Services showed an effort to narrow the
definition of gender to male or female, and for that assignation to be
unchangeable from birth.
“Sex
means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological
traits identifiable by or before birth,” read the memo. “The sex listed
on a person’s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute
definitive proof of a person’s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic
evidence.”
During
the Obama administration, civil rights protections were expanded to
better include transgender people. Under the Trump administration, those
protections are being undone systematically. From attempts to ban trans people from serving in the military, and remove questions about gender identity from the 2020 Census, to rolling back protections related to health care and housing, Trump’s policies regarding transgender Americans has repeatedly been called cruel.
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