Posted on 10/21/2018 11:34:47 AM PDT by libh8er
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.
The director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, Roger Severino, was formally the head of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation, the Times reports. He called the Obama era expansion for the definitions of sex and gender to be “radical gender ideology.”
According to the Times, a new definition will likely be presented to the Justice Department by the end of this year. If successful, the narrower definition would strip an estimated 1.4 million people of a legal recognition of their gender identity. This would result in loss of rights ranging from housing to healthcare to education.
The National Center for Transgender Equality called the proposal “an attempt to put restraints on the lives of 2 million people, effectively abandoning our right to equal access to health care, to housing, to education, or to fair treatment under the law.”
Good.
Terrifying to who, exactly?
The poor, women of color and children affected most.
What and who is “The Cut”?
I’m not clicking on the link to find out.
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Wouldn’t it be nice to know, when someone is transgendered, where they started and where they claim to be?
As it is now, if someone is said to be a transgendered woman, I don’t know if it’s a woman pretending to be a man, or a man pretending to be a woman. And I don’t want anymore pronouns to keep track of, either.
Maybe the way to do it is to put “XX” or “XY” on the birth certificate and other IDs, but to let people pretend to be whatever they want to be. (In the spirit of the Halloween season, of course).
These people scare easily.
It shouldn’t be based on the outward physical appearance.
It should based on chromosomes. Male = XY, female - XX.
Pretty straightforward.
Fake men and fake women need rights like real genders?
The world has gone insane.
Sex is assigned at birth, actually before, by God. It would be very foolish of any society to give credence to a group that would alter that. You sure would not want them influencing your children. Repent!
This “transgender rights” is a leftist fabricated mess of pandering to the sick and perverted.
Group rights are an illusion. There are individual rights and they exist outside of what is created by idiots in Washington, the media and overpaid leftists in universities. They are held from time immemorial and have to be exercised and respected.
So called perversions labeled “transgender rights” are none of the aforementioned.
About 0.1% of the population.
This is good news indeed. These people who promote unnatural, unhealthy lifestyles are given too much media hype and support from the left when in fact they are evil and dangerous to a good, healthy and prosperous society. Defining them out of existence sounds like a good start.
Prayers to God for a spirit of sanity.
This title should be THE USA LOOKS FOR A WAY TO MAKE SPORTS FAIR FOR ALL WOMEN.
Nyslimes are science deniers
It’s called SCIENCE for a reason
XX
XY
basic science
The left is trying to destroy the traditions and norms of society.
People have always pretended whatever they have wanted to. Now, however, they want the law and us to bow to their ideocy.
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