Posted on 10/21/2018 3:14:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
New York Times cites government memo
Gender would be defined at birth as only male or female
The Trump administration is attempting to strip transgender people of official recognition by creating a narrow definition of gender as being only male or female and unchangeable once determined at birth, the New York Times reported.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has undertaken an effort across several departments to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex, the Times said, citing a government memo.
That definition would be as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals a person is born with, the Times reported.
Such an interpretation would reverse the expansion of transgender rights that took place under President Barack Obama.
It would also set back aspirations for tolerance and equality among the estimated 0.7% of the population that identifies as transgender. Most transgender people live with a profound sense that the gender assigned to them at birth was wrong and transition to the opposite sex. Others live a non-binary or gender-fluid life....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Some fools defined more than two genders into being, so why can’t Trump return to the original non-corrupted version. Masculine, feminine (and neuter).
Oh we can’t have that done...we need 50+ genders. Thank you President Trump!!!!
BUMP!!
“No one is born transgendered and they do not deserve rights they already receive as individuals under the Constitution.“
They do not deserve any additional rights. At least I believe that’s what you meant to say.
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If a Conservative is doing the defining, is there a difference between gender and sex? Honest question, no bull.
Seems to me they are the same thing.
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