One Way to Defend Transgender People From Trump’s Attacks? Labor Unions.

A New York Times report this week revealed that the Trump administration’s assault on transgender, non-binary and intersex people have escalated. According to a memo circulating since last spring and recently obtained by the Times, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is at the helm of an effort to define gender as either male or female, immutable and determined by the sex assigned at birth—a move that would dramatically roll back protections and recognition of people who fall outside the gender binary. The legal definition would fall under Title IX, the federal law that bars gender discrimination in government-funded education programs.