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As Donald Trump forbids trans people from updating their gender markers at a federal level, Democratic states are making it easier for them to legally change their name and sex.
The Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom at HHS brings to mind dark times in medical history, like the Tuskegee experiment.
The state's Department of Health and its Department of Education have pushed to restrict trans rights.
"The government cannot excuse its indirect censorship of political speech simply by declaring the disfavored speech is 'false,'" the judge wrote.
Detailed in a new report, it's the latest in a series of hostile actions from the Trump administration's Health and Human Services Department.
Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “are starting their tenure at HHS by attacking trans people, harming their access to health, and promoting unscientific rhetoric about sex as a so-called immutable characteristic,” former HHS official Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
