{"id":178589,"date":"2018-10-21T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/21\/welcome-to-the-republic-of-gilead-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-21T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T23:21:00","slug":"welcome-to-the-republic-of-gilead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/21\/welcome-to-the-republic-of-gilead-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Republic of Gilead"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the latest outrage from the Trump administration, they are looking to side with the Talibaptists by declaring transgendered people as unpeople<\/a>:<\/div>\n

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 governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.<\/p>\n

A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened the legal concept of gender in federal programs, including in education and health care, recognizing gender largely as an individual\u2019s choice and not determined by the sex assigned at birth. The policy prompted 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.<\/p>\n

Now the Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an effort to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans gender discrimination in education programs that receive government financial assistance, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times.<\/p>\n

The department argued in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined \u201con a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.\u201d The agency\u2019s proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with, according to a draft reviewed by The Times. Any dispute about one\u2019s sex would have to be clarified using genetic testing.<\/p>\n

\u201cSex means a person\u2019s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth,\u201d the department proposed in the memo, which was drafted and has been circulating since last spring. \u201cThe sex listed on a person\u2019s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person\u2019s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The radical right just needs to hate, and Trump will do whatever he he can to pander to them.<\/p>\n

These folks are really a clear and present danger to any modern society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the latest outrage from the Trump administration, they are looking to side with the Talibaptists by declaring transgendered people as unpeople: 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 governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,573,364,436,437],"class_list":["post-178589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-lgbtq","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}