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Monday, October 22, 2018

Trump administration considering narrowing legal definition of gender: report

The Trump administration is weighing a change that would require individuals to identify as male or female based on their genitalia at birth, tightening gender definitions that had offered more leeway to transgender and gender nonconforming individuals, The New York Times reported Sunday.

The Department of Health and Human Services proposed in a memo obtained by the news outlet that government agencies adopt a definition of gender that is determined "on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable."

The change would would base sex on the genitals a person is born with.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent!

His and Hers!

Anonymous said...

Oh for the obvious they turn to science.

Anonymous said...

Please do so! You are one or the other, not one of 60! Man or woman nothing more!

Anonymous said...

But what about when I decide to go out wearing my dress?

Anonymous said...

I can hear the heads exploding already.