Trump’s gender policy is both cruel and scientifically bankrupt

The Trump administration’s newly proposed interpretation of Title IX, which would effectively cut transgender people out of existence in federal policy, is a fundamental perversion of science, medicine, and culture. Despite the language used in the memo, it is neither “grounded in science” nor “objective.” It is an ideologically extreme position that isn’t supported by biology or gender theory. Despite the president’s insistence that such a policy is ne