Trump Administration Removes Info on Avoiding Anti-Trans Bias
Donald Trump’s administration has launched another assault on transgender people, stripping the Office of Personnel Management’s website of guidelines on the treatment of federal government employees who are trans.
The previous page, a holdover from President Barack Obama’s administration, defined terms relating to transgender people and offered advice on fair and equal treatment, such as using employees’ preferred names and pronouns, and allowing them access to restrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.
The administration had already removed information related to LGBTQ people, women, and other populations from several federal sites. The day of Trump’s inauguration, January 20, 2017, a page devoted to LGBTQ issues disappeared from the White House site. Soon afterward, an apology for the so-called Lavender Scare, the purge of gay people from the federal government in the middle of the 20th century, vanished from the State Department website.
The administration’s attempts to erase trans people go on, with a proposal to basically define them out of existence under federal law circulating among government agencies. And this past Friday, the Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to allow Trump’s ban on military service by transgender people to go into effect, even though the lawsuits challenging the ban have not made their way through lower courts. The Supreme Court has yet to decide whether to hear the case.
https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2018/11/26/trump-administration-removes-info-avoiding-anti-trans-bias
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