One of the first presidential ordinances, signed by President Donald Trump on the first day of his inauguration, was strictly recognized only two gender, male and women, and withdrawing transgender protection within the federal government.
While the widespread and vague wording remains doubtful how some policies are implemented, the order is instructed to specify the “intimate space” containing toilets by gender. I’m doing it. Government documents, including passports, “need to reflect the gender of the owner accurately.” And government public relations and funding shall not promote what this order calls “gender ideology”.
The order also states that the prison bureau should not detain the man assigned at the time of birth in a women’s prison or prison, but should not provide inmates a medical care that affirms gender.
Lewis Stay, a Trans -Sport Director, said that the order has ignored the established scientific understanding and the experience of transgender, intersex, and non -binary people.
“It creates a lot of uncertainty, a lot of fear, and a lot of confusion,” said Stay. “Because of that, we are in a situation where we have no idea what will happen next.”
Gonzaga Law School’s Lincoln LGBTQ+Right Clinic Director Sarah Harmon states that the ambiguous words of the presidential decree are intentional to make the presidential decree more flexible and robust. Ta.
“It will have an erasure effect,” says Harmon.
There is no accurate option for those who work in the government or interact with the federal system due to incompatibility with gender. Some may choose to return to the closet to ensure safety or protect your work.
“In addition, the federal staff who may have Transphobia’s thoughts is very courageous for their own identity and gender for colleagues, applicants, and civilian who have different gender. Will be told, “said Harmon.
Harmon said another complicated problem faced by people was that the gender described in the driver’s license and other identification could not match the federal passport.
Stay said that transgender people rely on the right documents to live without making judgments.
The Americans have been allowed to fill out the passport as gender since 2022, but their options were deleted on Tuesdays on the Ministry of State’s website.
The spectrum center in the spokehane is an organization that supports gender -affirmation, such as changing the legal name and updating an identification certificate, and is trying to deal with recent changes.
“It was a tough week this week,” said KJ Jannule, the director in charge of Advocacy Engagement.
According to Janure, homosexuals have flowed into the center since Trump’s election. The center of the center free gender affirmative product program, called GAPP, was filled with 50 frames within 48 hours since last week.
“The message we are receiving is complete fear, sadness, and frustration,” said Jannule. “It’s hard to have no answer.”
Former Spokane Fire Department’s former captain and transformer woman Mave Griffith said, “In my opinion, this is simply an immoral and anger and delusion.”
Beyonce Black St. James, who was selected as Miss Trans USA in November, said that it would prevent refugees escaping from anti -LGBTQ+violence, accused President Trump’s orders, including asylum suspension. 。
St. James said that transforming the protection of the title IX was at risk of bullying and discrimination, and the ability to succeed in academic and social aspects was impaired.
“These presidential ordinances are not only morally blamed, but are also legally suspicious,” she said. “They are the basis of Japan, which is the basis of equality, justice, and compassion.”
Harmon said that the order could not disable the state’s anti -discipline, and that some states were specially protected by federal staff. Thus, Washington’s federal staff will be more protected than working in Idaho.
Harmon stated that the presidential ordinance on the discontinuation of funding could reach all organizations to receive federal funds far beyond the government. This may include private universities such as public school districts and Gonzaga University.
Does the government intend to set up a gender -shared toilet or to provide funds to organizations that allow staff to enter the signature of email? Is medical care, residence and food benefits dangerous?
Harmon said, like President Trump’s other orders, it was inevitable that the state and organizations were inevitable.
The order is likely to face the 7th episode of the 1964 -based, in prohibiting employment discrimination based on the Civil Rights Law, and the 9th part of prohibiting discrimination due to gender in education. There may be more objections from other laws and previous lawsuits.
In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled in a six -to -three ruling of Bostok vs. Clayton County, saying that discrimination based on transgender would be a gender discrimination based on the seventh.
Meanwhile, the Presidential Ordinance states that the Trump administration will drafting a bill to cultivate the definition of the presidential decree. Harmon said that if the Congress revised the law, these legal issues could be resolved.
President Trump’s supporters argued that President Joe Biden’s administration has gone too far to promote Transgender rights.
“What the government has done to end this madness,” said Sarah Particapped, a senior legal researcher at the conservative helitegate Foundation, in an interview with a Christian broadcast network last week. “They are trying to regain the safety of women and girls. They protect the biological development of normal puberty children and revive official documents.”
The Aidaho Republican Republican Senator Jim Rish and Senator Mike Krapo submitted a bill to restrict transgender players in women’s sports, arguing that they would protect women and girls under the title IX. The protection law of women and girls in sports introduced this month guarantees that the provisions of the IX edition will recognize gender “based on the reproductive creature and genetics of people at birth.” I will.
Mr. Rish and Krapo were the Senate last year, saying that all the individuals were either men or women, and the gender of the person was “clinically confirmed before birth or before birth.” But it was. It is also stated that Inter sex must be either men or women, and gender is the same as gender.
“Definition of sex as biological truth, the meaning of sex, the concepts and terms of the concepts and terms of gender, gender, gender, sexuality, sexual expression, experienced gender, etc. are increasing. I’m doing it. ” The bill was submitted in November, but has not been voted yet. “The turmoil and ambiguity over the definition of gender, male, women, and related terms may hinder individual efforts to enjoy equal treatment under the law.”
Harmon stated that the most harmful part of the Trump Presidential Order is probably in prison with a wide range of authority.
Harmon stated that transgender inmates are more risky to be sexually assaulted, regardless of what facilities.
“These people are already weak in prison, but they will be in a weaker position.”
This order, which is officially entitled “Protect women from the extreme gender ideology, and restore biological truth to the federal government,” is widely criticized by medical experts as misunderstanding human biology. It is done. The definition of sex in this knights is unchanged and is determined at the time of conversion, but overlooks the complex process of sexual development over time.
The order also mentions Inter -sex people born with both men and women’s sexual characteristics.
Dr. Pam Colmeyer, a emergency physician, states that the field of medicine and psychology recognizes the importance of supporting diverse personal health and happiness, and the US Psychological Foundation and the United States Children’s Council. He pointed out the policy of the US Society of Psychology. Family medicine.
“I’m worried about the health and safety of transgender children and their families,” said Colmeyer.
She raised a trance gender, a non -binary child, who died of suicide, and supported school gender.
“Gender is real,” says Colmeyer. “If people access medical care that can check their own identity, life will be saved.”
In another action last week, Trump also canceled the President of the Videnium from 2021 to cancel the protection of Transgender, an openly serving military. The presidential decree itself overturned another presidential decree from President Trump’s first term.
According to Stars and Stripes, this measure does not directly prohibit transgender service, but may open the path to future orders.
Spokane and the northwest inland are provided with resources to support gender people.
Trans Spokane is a group organized in a community that provides support and connection through online and face -to -face meetings.
Lincoln LGBTQ+ Right Clinic, a part of Gonzaga Law School’s Civil Rights Center, holds a pop -up clinic every month to support the creation of other documents such as property plans and medical orders, as well as changing identity certificates and legal names. I am. This clinic is also an agent of LGBTQ people who have been damaged by identity.
Colmeyer teaches suicide prevention classes at churches, companies, and public libraries through medical reserve squads in the Sportokane Regional Health District. Colmeyer said, like cardiopulmonary resuscitation, everyone needed to take this class. This tells people how to recognize dangerous signs and intervene when someone is in danger.
Stay, the director of the Trans -Spokane, shared two messages.
“For the transgender community, they are not lonely, there are resources like our group in the world, we are here to support people and connect people. But that’s not it, “he said. It is an era where we have to overcome it, and there is a community where people can participate. “
And for a wider spokane community: “I want you to recognize the presidential decree and recognize the impact on the transformer and the threat to our safety.”
Until James Hanlon, you can contact us by 459-5467 or e-mail jamesh@spokesman.com.
