Apparently, the Trump administration intends to define transgenders out of existence.
The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a government-wide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.
A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened the legal concept of sex in federal programs, including in education and health care, recognizing sex largely as an individual’s choice — and prompting fights over bathrooms, dormitories, single-sex programs and other arenas where gender was once seen as a simple concept. Conservatives, especially evangelical Christians, were incensed.
Because, you know, reality can be defined however you want it to be, and resolute ignorance is an invincible force.
Gender dysphoria is a real thing, and science has known that for decades. The problem is not transgenders, but ignoramuses who just can’t stand that the world is more complicated than their simplistic binary understanding of it. It is time — time past, really — to bring an end to deference and confront evangelical ignorance straighforwardly; their resolute ignorance is a character failure, and it should not be allowed to harm people.