Trump Administration Seeks to Limit Definition of Gender
President Donald Trump’s administration are considering a new memo that would limit the definition of gender, essentially erasing the identity of millions of transgender people, the New York Times reports.
The leaked proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services reads: “Sex means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth.
“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.”
The proposals asks the administration to set a definition of gender “grounded in science” that once assigned at birth cannot be changed.
“(This is) an attempt to put restraints on the lives of millions of people, effectively abandoning our right to equal access to health care, to housing, to education, or to fair treatment under the law,”said the National Center for Transgender Equalityin a statement.
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