Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Trump’s gender policy is both cruel and scientifically bankrupt

The Trump administration’s newly proposed interpretation of Title IX, which would effectively cut transgender people out of existence in federal policy, is a fundamental perversion of science, medicine, and culture. Despite the language used in the memo, it is neither “grounded in science” nor “objective.” It is an ideologically extreme position that isn’t supported by biology or gender theory. Despite the president’s insistence that such a policy is needed to “protect America,” it is little more than an unjustifiable effort to inflict further suffering on the transgender community.

The memo calls on the Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, Education, and Labor to adopt a unified interpretation of the meaning of the word...

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