Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday will provide public and federal agencies with accurate terms describing categories such as “men,” “female,” and “female.” It announced that it has adopted a set of official “gender-based definitions” from the government. “Women and men.”
The definition is listed in the one-page “guidance” aimed at banning transgender women and girls from women's sports, blocking youth care, and meeting President Trump's pledge to be recognized by the federal government . Two genders: male and female.
“This administration is regaining common sense and restoring biological truths to the federal government,” Kennedy said in a statement. “The previous administration's policy of trying to design gender ideology for all aspects of public life is over.”
Men are defined under guidance as “a sex person characterized by a reproductive system with biological functions that produce sperm.” Women are “sexuals characterized by the reproductive system with the biological function of eggs (OVAs).”
However, many health professionals, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, recognize that not everyone fits into a neat category of men and women. Some individuals are “intersex” and have sexual anatomy or chromosomes that do not conform to the typical definitions of men and women.
Some children do not identify with gender or with genders that do not correspond to biological sex. The Academy publishes its own set of definitions, including transgenders, defined as “a subset of young people with gender twins whose gender identity does not match sex assigned to them.”
As part of the Trump Administration initiative, the Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new webpage for the Federal Bureau of Women's Health.
The new page, entitled “Protecting Women and Children,” features a video with Riley Gaines, a conservative activist and former National University of Kentucky swimmer, who is competitive when competing with transgender women. He says he was put at a disadvantage.
The page links to guidance and definitions. “Recognizing the constant and biological nature of gender is essential to ensuring women's health, safety, private spaces, sports and opportunities. We trust the government itself.”
Kennedy's announcement has issued “clear guidance” to the Health Bureau for 30 days on how to interpret sex-based definitions in response to an executive order issued by Trump on January 20th. .
On Tuesday, Kennedy delivered a welcome address to department employees, where his agency said that Americans “discover our own path to living our best lives, and we He said that he will unleash the possibilities of everyone and release good personal choices that allow for personal choices. We will nourish, heal and develop ourselves.”
On Wednesday, Trump administration opponents and Kennedy met outside the Department of Health and Human Services office to protest a job that drove thousands of workers, including up-and-coming young scientists, into the department and its institutions. .
Kennedy, who once counted himself as a Democrat as a presidential candidate, had not made trans rights a central part of his political persona. He once said it wasn't “a really important issue for you, for me, for our kids.”
However, he also made it clear that he will follow Trump's lead. He said he supports a ban on gender-maintaining care for minors, including adolescent blockers and hormonal therapy. He also makes an unfounded claim that chemical atrazine in drinking water causes sexual discomfort in children, based on frog research.
Proponents of trans rights are called Kennedy's health secretary's “particularly unsettling” appointment. In a statement against his confirmation, the group Sinead Murano Kinney supports trance equality, called Mr. Kennedy. Public life. ”
Conservatives supported the announcement on Wednesday. “It took years of hard work, but we've finally returned to science and common sense,” says Roger Severino, who wrote the Health section of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 Blueprint to Overhaul the Federal Government. I mentioned it in the media.
Estimates from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law show that there are around 1.6 million young people and adults in the United States identifying them as transgender. Trump's predecessor, President Joseph R. Biden Jr., has made trans people the cornerstone of the federal government.
Biden's health aide, pediatrician Dr. Rachel Levine, made history by becoming the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to a federal position.
Trump quickly overturned the Biden administration's policies. He tracks the January 20th executive order and includes a range of other works aimed at disenfranchising trans people from almost every corner of American life, including schools, hospitals, prisons, military and housing. I tracked down people.
Critics opposed not only the content of the order, but also their strict language. The order banning taxpayer dollars from funding medical interventions for transgender children is headed “Protecting children from chemical and surgical amputations.”
Government agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Health Department, have been ordered to remove languages that refer to “gender ideology” from their website. Since then, the judge has ordered the CDC page to be restored. Some are still down.
Other sites, including the CDC Youth Risk Behavior Monitoring System, are in charge of the disclaimer.
“The administration and this department refuse to do so as this page does not reflect biological reality,” the disclaimer states, adding that the information presented is “very inaccurate.” Ta.
