Civil rights protections have expanded over the years, to better include transgender people, and in fact to better include all people, but in the past day or so a very troubling reversal has come. The White House is responsible for an effort that would narrow the definition of gender to male or female, and for that assignment to be unchangeable from birth. This is not only unkind, it is downright cruel. You cannot erase an entire segment of the population. Protections should be unnecessary, but meanspirited attacks like this threaten us all.
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