Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration had adopted a series of “sex -based definitions” of the official government to give public and federal terms with which to describe categories including “male”, ” female, “” woman “and” man “.
The definitions are listed in a “guide” of a page that is partly aimed at maintaining women and transgender girls outside women’s sports, discouraging the treatments that affirm the genre for young people and the fulfillment of the commitment of the President Trump that the Federal Government will recognize only two sexes: male and female.
“This administration is reporting common sense and restoring the biological truth to the federal government,” said Kennedy in a note. “The previous administration policy to try to design gender ideology in every aspect of public life is over.”
A male is defined under guidance as “a person of sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of sperm production”. A female is “a person of sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of egg production (ova)”.
But many medical experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, recognize that not everyone adapts to tidy categories of males and females. Some individuals are intersex and have sex anatomy or chromosomes that do not adapt to the typical definitions of male and female.
Some children do not identify with either of them or identify themselves with a genre that does not correspond to their biological sex. The Academy has published its set of definitions that include young transgender, described as “a subset of young prohibitions whose gender identity does not correspond to the assigned sex”.
As part of the Trump Administration initiative, the Human Health Department has launched a new web page for the Federal Health Office on Women’s Health, whose wallet includes reproductive health, maternal and behavioral health for women.
The new page, entitled “Protecting Women and Children”, presents a video with Riley Gaines, the conservative activist and the former American swimmer of the University of Kentucky who claims to have been put at a competitive disadvantage when competing against a woman Transgender.
The page connects to driving and definitions. “Recognizing the immutable and biological nature of sex is essential to ensure the protection of women’s health, safety, private spaces, sport and opportunities”, says the guide, adding that the move was “fundamental for scientific investigation , public security, morality and trust in the government itself.
Kennedy’s announcement was in response to an executive order that Trump issued on January 20 who gave the health department 30 days to issue a “clear guide” to the public on how to interpret the definitions based on sex.
Tuesday, Mr. Kennedy held a welcome speech to the employees of the Department in which he said that his agency would work to help the Americans “discover our paths to live our fullest life, triggering the potential in each of us To make good personal choices that allow us to feed, heal and develop. “
Last Wednesday, the opponents of the Trump and Kennedy administration gathered outside the offices of the Health and Human Services Department to protest against work cuts that freed the Department and its agencies of thousands of workers, including young people emerging scientists.
As a candidate for the presidency, Kennedy, who once considered himself a democrat, did not make the transgender rights refrain a central part of his political person. Once he said it was not among “the problems they really import for me, for our children”.
But he also clarified that he would follow the example of Mr. Trump. He said he favors the prohibition of care that affirm the genre, including blockers of puberty and hormonal therapy, for minors. He also did not proven statements, on the basis of a study in the frogs, that chemical atrazine in drinking water is causing sexual dysphoria in children.
Transgender rights supporters called Kennedy nominations for the “particularly alarming” secretary of health. In a declaration that opposes its confirmation, Sinead Murano-Kinney of the group supports the trans equality called Mr. Kennedy “a conspiracy polena, a yes-man, which allows the worst impulses of a president with a clear public life agenda. “
The conservatives cheered on Wednesday. “It took many years of efforts, but we have finally returned to science and common sense,” said Roger Severino, who wrote the health section of the project of the project 2025 of the Heritage Foundation for the review of the federal government, on social media .
There are about 1.6 million young people and adults in the United States who identify themselves as a transgender, according to an estimate of the Williams Institute at the Ucla School of Law. Trump’s predecessor, President Joseph R. Biden Jr., made the protection of transgender people a milestone of federal policy.
The assistant secretary for the health of Mr. Biden, Dr. Rachel Levine, pediatrician, made history becoming the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate in a federal position.
Trump quickly reversed the policies of the Biden Administration. He followed his executive order of January 20 with a series of other faces to remove the rights of transgender people in almost every corner of American life – including schools, hospitals, prisons, military and housing.
Critics objected not only to the substance of orders, but their hard language. The order that prevents the dollars of taxpayers from the financing of medical interventions for transgender children is entitled “protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation”.
The government agencies, including the centers for the control and prevention of diseases, which are under the health department, have been ordered to eliminate any language mentioned “gender ideology” from their websites. Since then a judge has ordered the page of the restored CDC. Some are still down.
Other sites – including the risk behavior surveillance system for the young people of the CDC – now transport a disclaimer.
“This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the administration and this department rejects it”, says the Disclaimer, adding that the information presented is “extremely inaccurate”.