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But the Trump administration seems to be proposing that our country do just that. The New York Times reported that the encoded in federal civil rights law to one in which sex would be determined by a person鈥檚 genitalia at birth.

That would exclude transgender Americans from civil rights protections 鈥斅燼nd effectively write them out of legal existence.聽聽

The implications of such a proposal are staggering. Take, for instance, its , as James Hamblin wrote this week for The Atlantic:

Scientific implausibility aside, this is a federal agency proposing widespread genetic testing and keeping records of citizens鈥� genitals. This is a proposal by the government imposing an expectation that everyone look and act in one of two ways, and that everything in between is somehow not right 鈥� an aberration, an anomaly, a flaw, a problem, a disease 鈥� rather than a marvel of the natural world.

Or take the that critics like the Los Angeles Times鈥� Michael Hiltzik see in such a proposal:

There is no conceivable reason to support discrimination against transgender individuals other than to show one can target a community without a strong political voice or political power.

Or take the proposal鈥檚 dubious distinction as being merely the latest in a long line of attacks on the transgender community from an administration with a connection to an anti-LGBT hate group. It鈥檚 that that Masha Gessen was describing when she wrote for The New Yorker this week:

The revocation of rights feels violent because it is violent. 鈥� Trump鈥檚 is the politics of simplistic categories designed to exclude ever greater numbers of people. This process is most obvious in the politics of immigration, where more and more people are being defined out of citizenship, out of legal residence, out of deserving asylum 鈥� out of full personhood. That is precisely what the proposed legal changes will do to people whose gender expression or identity falls outside the newly redefined boxes for 鈥淢鈥� and 鈥淔.鈥�

We watched this week to say loudly and unequivocally, 鈥淲e won鈥檛 be erased.鈥�

It鈥檚 an inspiring message that can apply to all the communities we are serving during this uncertain time 鈥斅爄mmigrants, people of color, those who have been incarcerated, the economically marginalized and so many more, all of whom find their rights under assault.

But while these protections seem in doubt, . As Hiltzik concludes in his piece for the :

When word of the Trump administration鈥檚 determination to restore and expand discrimination against transgender Americans leaked out, it was left largely to LGBTQ advocacy groups to sound the alarm. But it鈥檚 not their battle 鈥� or shouldn鈥檛 be. It鈥檚 part of the battle for the soul of a civilized America, and that battle belongs to all of us.

We couldn鈥檛 agree more.

奥别鈥檙别 proud to represent our LGBT and gender-nonconforming clients, supporters and people everywhere who know gender both exists on and exceeds a spectrum of identities 鈥� every one of them beautiful.

We hope you鈥檒l join us in this fight "for the soul of a civilized America.鈥�

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P.S. Here are some other pieces we think are valuable this week:

• by Erica L. Green and Annie Waldman for The New York Times
• by Lisa Rein for The Washington Post
• by Amy Harmon for The New York Times
• Naming the enslaved, reconciling the past in Memphis by Hannah Baldwin for 澳彩开奖

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