Trump’s policy agenda includes a Congressional bill to define government-recognized genders strictly as male and female, as assigned at birth.
I have to wonder what is going to happen when the law runs headlong into science here. Because sure, this might primarily affect trans-folk, but they aren’t the only ones who defy strict binary gender.
I believe their official stance is simply that any “expert who thinks they know better than the duly elected president” will be fired or ignored
Just have to look at climate science for an example of science taking a backseat to political will.
Science?? Have you seen the abortion debate? There are vegetables classified as fruit and other horrors on the law books. Science got nothing to do with it.
I have to wonder what is going to happen when the law runs headlong into science here.
They’ll double down even harder like the failed war on drugs, despite the damage it’s causing. As long as conservatives “feel” like something is the correct solution, it’s the right way to go, all evidence, studies, and science be damned.
yup their feelings dont care about the facts
Intersex and the rest will be ignored and marginalized, just like always.
Why do you think that science has any place in the Trump administration?
I don’t, but when you get to a courtroom, where there are standards of evidence, a judge is going to have to make interpretations that don’t match up with the law.
Hell what happens when there is a typo on a birth certificate? If I’m assigned female at birth and am not genetically nor biologically female, what then? I just have to wait five times as long in bathroom lines? Does the government get to track my menstruation?
All of Trumpists’ dreams of simplicity are defeated by asking just the most obvious questions. Imagine if I were smart enough to ask good questions.
Well, Trump replaced a bunch of federal judges with sycophants. And, fascists really don’t care about the rule of law or logic.
This is the man who said “you send your kid to school as a boy, and they change his sex and send him home a girl.” He told his rally goers that schools do sex changes and they believed him.
“On day one, I will revoke Joe Biden’s policies on so-called gender-affirming care. Ridiculous. A process that involves giving kids puberty blockers, mutating their physical appearance, and ultimately performing surgery on minor children. Can you believe this?”
This is the reason he won. Society ain’t happy with plastic surgeries performed on children
prohibitions on gender-affirming care for both minors and adults
Only minors, neither article nor my own research point to adult ban. Looks like the article lies on purpose
Misleading headline. Nowhere does the article mention anything about banning such care for adults.
It’s still wholly and completely shit, but the headline and the first paragraph are (as of right now) incorrect.
It will be kind of hard for adults to get gender-affirming care, though, when the government enforces that your gender is fixed at birth.
Sure, nobody is arguing against the fact it will be harder to get this type surgery - mostly due to financial reasons. But claim that it’s getting banned is a filthy fucking lie
Not all gender affirming care is surgery. In fact, almost all gender affirming care isn’t surgery. He wants to restrict all of it so that as few people as possible can get on it, then eventually it’ll be an entire ban because he doesn’t want trans people to exist at all. While it might not initially be an entire ban, its pretty fucking close and will be expanded upon eventually.
That’s like splitting hairs over whether a abortion is banned in Texas, cuz technically it is allowed under very narrow circumstances that no hospital is willing to try.
The fact you have to pay now for the surgery is completely different from ban with few exceptions. You’re completely wrong
I am completely wrong and yet completely vindicated by your response.
We’ll see how that turns out…
He also proposed excluding hospitals and healthcare providers who offer these services from Medicaid and Medicare
