The Trump administration is set to scrap “gender identity” in federal law and return to the previous legal definition of sex as synonymous with biological sex.
Such was the definition until the past few years.
The Health and Human Services Department will return to the long-held legal definition of sex as referring to biological sex for the purposes of the Title IX ban on sex discrimination, according to The New York Times, which obtained an official memo with the intended plans, reported Sunday.
HHS contended in the document that key government agencies must adopt a clear definition of sex “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.”
The issue came to a head in early 2016 when the Obama Justice Department issued a Dear Colleague letter threatening to withhold federal dollars from schools and other government-funded institutions unless they opened up their restrooms, changing facilities, and locker rooms on the basis of gender identity instead of sex.
