The move is Trump\u2019s latest attempt to deny transgender rights.<\/p>\n
The administration\u2019s request comes in the wake of an October memo detailing a proposal to legally erase transgender people by creating a federal legal definition of gender, first published in\u00a0a report in the\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n The NYT<\/a>: \u201cThe department argued in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined \u2018on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.\u2019 The agency\u2019s proposed definition would define sex<\/a> as either male<\/a> or female<\/a>, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with, according to a draft reviewed by The Times. Any dispute about one\u2019s sex<\/a> would have to be clarified using genetic testing.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the memo seen by the NYT, the Department of Health and Human Services is proposing that \u201cSex means a person\u2019s status as male<\/a> or female<\/a> based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth.\u00a0The sex<\/a> listed on a person\u2019s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person\u2019s sex<\/a> unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump spoke to reporters last week about the memo: \u201cWe\u2019re looking at it. We have a lot of different concepts right now. They have a lot of different things happening with respect to transgender right now. You know that as well as I do, and we\u2019re looking at it very seriously. I\u2019m protecting everybody. You know what I\u2019m doing? I\u2019m protecting everybody. I want to protect our country.\u201d<\/p>\n On the heels of the memo\u00a0the Justice Department filed a brief arguing that businesses can discriminate against workers<\/a>\u00a0because they are transgender.\u00a0The Trump administration is also reportedly moving<\/a>\u00a0to have the word \u201cgender\u201d removed from United Nations documents and replaced with the word \u201cwoman<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n All this follows a series of efforts the Trump administration has been making to remove and restrict the rights of transgender individuals in multiple areas, including\u00a0military service<\/a>,\u00a0federal prison rights<\/a>,\u00a0health care<\/a>,\u00a0schools<\/a>,\u00a0the CDC<\/a>, and\u00a0the judiciary<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene and Allow Ban on Transgender Troops to Go Into Effect<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\nREAD THIS:\u00a0Trump Plans to Legally Abolish Transgender People, Define Gender by Genitalia at Birth: Memo<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n