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Originally Posted by ScaringChildren
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They gonna use machine guns to "erase the existence" of Trans people?
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Mae already responded to this pretty well but here is some more. You do not have much ammo if all you can do is argue the semantics of a headline.
CHASE STRANGIO: Right now, federal civil rights law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. The courts have long understood that that includes discrimination against trans people and anyone who departs from sex stereotypes. So this is not new. The New York Times was incorrect in saying that the Obama administration, quote-unquote, “loosened” the definition of gender or sex. That is not what happened. The law has been clear for decades. The Obama administration offered interpretive guidance consistent with that. The effort now is to offer new interpretation that will conflict with the federal law as interpreted by the courts. And so, this is not something that the Trump administration can do single-handedly, but it is an effort to exclude trans people from civil rights protections. And we have to stay vigilant.
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https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10...rase_existence