In April of 2016, the New York Times declared that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump had set himself apart from the rest of the Republican Party in one unusual manner: his embrace, relative to his colleagues, of LGBT rights.
Americans "[should] use the bathroom they feel is appropriate," Trump famously said amid the outcry over a North Carolina bathroom law that prohibited citizens from using a public restroom that didn't match their gender identity at birth. Months later, following the massacre of dozens of LGBT Americans by a gunman at an Orlando nightclub, Trump declared that America "stands together in solidarity with the members of Orlando's LGBT community."
But that was all pre-White House rhetoric; two years into his presidency, Trump has been anything but supportive of LGBT rights. And that was no more apparent than on Sunday, when the New York Times reported the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pushing a measure that would formally define someone's legal gender based on their "immutable biological traits" at birth—and, if accepted by the Department of Justice by the end of the year, would deprive nearly 1.4 million transgender Americans of legal recognition of their gender identity.
[For more on this story by JARED KELLER, go to https://psmag.com/social-justi...r-by-their-birth-sex]
Comments (0)