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The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.
The trans erasure memo and similar actions by the administration will reverberate beyond the U.S., says Amnesty International.
The measure would have made it essentially impossible to change the gender on a birth certificate.
A new report shows a 43 percent increase, as white nationalist movements gain more visibility under Trump.
It also has forbidden sex changes on existing passports, in accordance with Donald Trump's "two genders" executive order.
The legislation defines gender as "the innate and immutable characteristics established at conception."
A letter from the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles cites the state's statute prohibiting fake IDs, which makes use of a fictitious ID a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years of prison or probation and a $5,000 fine, to bar the changes.
Dana Milbank and Jennifer Rubin stop just short of blaming the shooting on SPLC's classification of FRC as a hate group, but still claim FRC is a harmless Christian policy group.
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.
It comes as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration criminalizes changing one's gender on an I.D.
Republican politicians are targeting the school’s LGBTQ Studies minor and other programs over the inclusion of queer and Black perspectives.
Legislators reneged on their promise to not advance a bill that would allow religious objections to transgender students using bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity.
The state's Attorney General Derek Brown credits President Donald Trump for the decision and a new attitude from the federal prosecutors.
