President Trump signed decrees on Monday by saying that the American government recognizes Only two sexes which are “not modifiable” and reversing the Biden administration guidelines on LGBTQ +rights.
One of the new orders indicates that “masculine” and “woman” are defined on the basis of reproductive cells and when a person is conceived, and declares that the identification issued by the government such as passports and visas must reflect this definition. In recent years, the United States had started to allow people to select a third option, X, on passports to indicate an unpertified or unpertified gender identity.
Trump’s directive also calls on federal agencies to eliminate declarations or policies “which promise or otherwise instill gender ideology”, which it defines as “a concept in constant evolution of self-assessing gender identity, allowing the false affirmation that men can identify as and thus become women and vice versa”.
Federal agencies will apply “laws governing rights, protections, opportunities and sex -based housing to protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes”, the order States, saying that such measures were necessary to prevent men from accessing “intimate spaces alone-sex” for women.
He also orders federal officials to ensure that the people she defines as men are not hosted in women's prisons or detention centers. In addition, the executive decree provides that the Attorney General blocks the use of federal funding for medical treatment or gender transition procedures for prisoners.
Kellan Baker, Executive Director of the Institute for Health Research & Policy at Whitman-Walker, an organization focused on LGBTQ + actions in health, noted that the order did not seem to make any distinction depending on whether someone had continued the medical transition or changed their identity documents.
“He seems to try to wave a wand of federal policy and to make transgender people disappear – which is an impossibility,” said Baker.
Baker said that changes in detention policies are not immediate and should go through the federal regulatory process. But if they had just passed, he said, this decision could put transgender people in federal custody, especially transgender women, in serious danger.
In a broader order which made dozens of decrees made by the president of the time back, Trump also reversed orders on LGBTQ + rightsIncluding the one who ordered the leaders of federal agencies to examine their rules against sexual discrimination to ensure that people have received equal treatment under the law, “regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation”.
The Trump administration is likely to deal with challenges on executive actions. Kevin Jennings, Director General of the Organization of Civil Rights LGBTQ + Lambda Legal, said in a statement that many of the changes requested in the decrees would take the time to deploy, but “we will monitor and be ready to vigilant when they take effect”.
“We explore each legal avenue to challenge these illegal and unconstitutional actions,” said Jennings.
During his campaign, Trump attacked “The madness of the genre of the left” And hammered the president of the time, Kamala Harris, at the idea of providing care of the sexes to federal detainees. He said he would push to block the use of federal funds for medical care involved in gender transition, including surgical procedures.
Trump also said that he would try to end health care providers for Medicaid and Medicare programs if they provide care for young people, which he calls “mutilation” – a decision that, according to experts, could reduce hospitals and clinics for critical federal financing flows.
The executive decree issued on Monday does not largely deal with medical care involved in the transition between sexes beyond restrictions involving prisoners, although experts have declared that changes in the way in which sex discrimination laws are interpreted could weaken protections for transgender patients. Biden administration had already been deployed Federal regulations This provided a large protection against discrimination based on gender identity by health entities funded by the federal government.
The American Medical Assn. has Expressed support For improving access to healthcare care, the appellant “an important means of improving the health results of the transgender population” and said that it supported the coverage of public and private insurance for the treatment of sexes in the sexes. American psychological insurance. a also opposite prohibitions on these care.
