A4TE Statement on Trump Administration Anti-Trans HHS Guidance

Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance in support of the Trump administration executive order to redefine sex. Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) Director of Federal Policy, Olivia Hunt, issued the following statement:

“Since January 20, the Trump administration has been on a mission to undermine well-established civil rights protections for people across the nation, to turn their values of hate, violence, and segregation into the official policies of the United States. 

“Let me be clear: Donald Trump, RFK Jr., and their conservative think-tank cronies don’t get to tell anyone who they are. Trans people, nonbinary people, and intersex people exist. We exist, and there is nothing these extremists can do to erase us. 

“RFK Jr., says this administration ‘wants to bring back common sense,’ but there is no sense more common than knowing how to mind your business. The government should not be interfering in our healthcare or our identities. We are watchful for further threats to our most basic values of privacy and control over our own bodies.

“Guidance from HHS, just like Donald Trump’s executive order, is not law – nor is it based in reality. We remind anyone considering preemptively complying with blatantly discriminatory and unconstitutional policy discriminating against trans and intersex people that they could be inviting potential legal action. Trans and intersex people represent the natural diversity of human beings, and even a basic understanding of biology would be sufficient to debunk the specious and discriminatory claims made in HHS’s guidance."
 

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