LGBTQ groups on Sunday said they would protest the Trump administration's reported plans to exclude transgender and nonbinary people from its legal definition of gender, The Hill reported.
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), Lambda Legal, Human Rights Campaign and other similar groups are organizing demonstrations for New York City’s Washington Square Park on Sunday evening and in front of the White House on Monday afternoon following a press conference that morning.
The report in The New York Times said the Trump administration has proposed a legal definition of gender "on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable."
The administration’s plan would reportedly require DNA testing to determine a person's gender if there are any disputes.
This definition would roll back former President Barack Obama's attempts to expand civil rights for transgender people, as his administration adopted a definition that recognized an individual’s self-definition of his gender identities.
HHS and the Justice Department declined to comment for the Times report.
NCTE was scathing in its denunciation of the Trump plan, saying the proposal was "an attempt to put heartless restraints on the lives of 2 million people, effectively abandoning our right to equal access to health care, to housing, to education, or to fair treatment under the law."
The press release added that, "this administration is willing to disregard the established medical and legal view of our rights and ourselves to solidify an archaic, dogmatic, and frightening view of the world."
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