Washington – NY Times: Trump Administration Trying To Define Transgender Out Of Existence

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     A picture dated picture, 29 April 2017 shows an 'All Gender' bathroom sign at a restaurant in Pacifica, California, USA. EPAWashington – The government of U.S. President Donald Trump 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 it is determined at birth, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

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    The Department of Health and Human Services has undertaken an effort across several government 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 it obtained.

    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 the previous administration of President Barack Obama.

    It would also set back aspirations for tolerance and equality among the estimated 0.7 percent 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, while others live a non-binary or gender fluid life.

    A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declined to comment on what she called “allegedly leaked documents” but cited a ruling by a conservative U.S. district judge as a guide to transgender policy.

    Ruling on a challenge to one aspect of the Affordable Care Act, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas found in 2016 that there was no protection against discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

    A leading transgender advocate called the government’s reported action a “super aggressive, dismissive, dangerous move.”

    “They are saying we don’t exist,” said Mara Keisling, director of the National Center for Transgender Rights, in an interview.

    The Obama administration enacted regulations and followed court rulings that protected transgender people from discrimination, upsetting religious conservatives.

    The Trump administration has sought to ban transgender people from military service and rescinded guidance to public schools recommending that transgender students be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice.

    A draft of the Trump administration memo says gender should be determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable,” the memo says, according to the Times.

    Medical science seeking to explain what makes people transgender is in its infancy.

    Psychiatrists no longer consider being transgender a disorder and several U.S. courts have found the Obama interpretation of protecting transgender people against discrimination as sound. But the Trump administration has chosen to abide by the ruling of O’Connor, the Times said.

    “The court order remains in full force and effect today and HHS is abiding by it as we continue to review the issue,” Roger Severino, the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement.


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    bsnow
    bsnow
    5 years ago

    Another reason to vote for republicans. Number 105,005,864.
    Don’t vote for the dem-o-rats.

    5 years ago

    Good bec you transis don’t exist . It’s nonsense . Of course you are what you are born with . To have surgery to change how g-d creates you is disgusting .And frankly it’s a bit creepy for my wife to hear a man making next door to her in a public bathroom just because the pervert identifies as a women .

    Finally a president with common sense

    5 years ago

    Go Trump go!!!

    YossiP
    YossiP
    5 years ago

    Like Noach, ‘Trump is a Tzadik in his generation’ saving us from the evil immoral (liberal/democratic) politicians and society.

    AmYisroel
    AmYisroel
    5 years ago

    Finally reality and the democrats call the republicans anti science when they believe that men can turn into women and vice versa transgenderism is a mental disorder these people need mental help not accomadating their mental illness we don’t accomadate people who think their Napoleon neither should we accomadate men who think their women and vice versa

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    5 years ago

    That is unless you identify as an Ha Shota

    5 years ago

    The Talmud discusses 6 genders.

    Mishnah Bikkurim 4; Mishnah Yevamot 8:4-6; Bereishit Rabbah 8:1; Yevamot 64a:9

    Yosef Et Achiv (by Rav Yossi Plaggi, z”l), (3:5) that asks… if there’s a case of a woman who led a normal life for years and then became a man, does he need a get [divorce document] because when he got married she was a woman, or is there no get because he isn’t a woman? … It seems to me in this question that there is no need for a get because he’s a man and not a woman.

    See also Responsa of Rav Eliezer Waldenberg in which the above is cited along with:

    “The identity and birthright of a human is not expressed by the separate organ parts of his body—and this will be the most important—but by the spirit and the soul which are within them. The Chatam Sofer got it right when he wrote that the body is not the human; rather the body is a bag made of dust and within that bag is inner wisdom, knowledge, and thoughts, which are the true essence of the human being”.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    5 years ago

    Hashomer what gender do you identify with?

    lazy-boy
    Active Member
    lazy-boy
    5 years ago

    Obama did his best to destroy the morality of the US; maybe Trump can turn it around.

    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    5 years ago

    Aguda opposes this effort, they have no money to be made on this

    qwzxc
    Member
    qwzxc
    5 years ago

    By Trump defining transgender out of existence, people who have had transgender surgery and fully look and act like females , will be forced to use Men bathrooms.
    Is that what Hashem wants ?
    Do we want our heilege kinder using a bathroom and seeing a female/male looking person ?