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The Trump-Vance Administration is trying to
Embolden discrimination and hate towards transgender people
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This order seeks to severely narrow government protections and support for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary individuals.
Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
January 20, 2025
Relying on false claims that attempt to divide communities, this order claims to change the policy of the United States to recognize only two genders (male and female), and attempts to redefine those and other terms throughout federal law to comport with this harmful worldview. It also orders the Attorney General to issue guidance to circumvent Supreme Court case law that supports transgender protections and orders several agencies to investigate people deemed to have prevented others from expressing the administration's dangerous views. This order squarely targets transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people for discrimination.
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