'Transgender' Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration

[icymist]

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.

A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened the legal concept of gender in federal programs, including in education and health care, recognizing gender largely as an individual’s choice and not determined by the sex assigned at birth. The policy prompted fights over bathrooms, dormitories, single-sex programs and other arenas where gender was once seen as a simple concept. Conservatives, especially evangelical Christians, were incensed.

Now the Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an effort to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans gender discrimination in education programs that receive government financial assistance, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times.

The department argued in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” The agency’s proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with, according to a draft reviewed by The Times. Any dispute about one’s sex would have to be clarified using genetic testing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/%E2%80%98transgender%E2%80%99-could-be-defined-out-of-existence-under-trump-administration/ar-BBOFkPk

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Disgusting!

Yet one more reason this misadministration HAS to go! I would say "before it is too late", but I fear we are already there, if not right on the cliff. I don't want a "Blue Wave", I want a fucking BLUE TSUNAMI! According to mythologies, G-d (and others) used a flood to wash away evil, so why can't we use a metaphorical one to do the same?!

[icymist]

2. Yup. These ass hats want to go back to 'the good 'ol days' like when I transitioned in the mid 80's!

I was fired from my job, evicted from my house, threatened by the police daily, and when I called the Illinois Department of Human Rights I was informed that people like me had none. No human rights at all. That's how I wound up moving to Seattle, the only city in the USA that actually has anti-discrimination laws that specifically included Trans folk.

[LostOne4Ever]

3. This administration will go down in history as the worst and most hateful in history. nt

[uriel1972]

4. The cynical part of me suspects...

There will be more than a few of our "Allies" and I use quotes deliberately, who will silently but happily let this one pass.
Discrimination and hate for the different is not confined to the "Conservative" side of the aisle I fear.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Yup!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

6. Why aren't people talking about this in GD? Seems like a big deal to me.

Maybe you should repost over in GD. You'd get a wider audience. This seems to be going under the radar. So much bad stuff in a few days. This how Trump gets away with it all. He just overwhelms people.