President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on Wednesday, banning schools that receive federal funding from allowing students to identify with the name and pronouns that best match their gender identity. It also bars the use of bathrooms and lockers by trans kids that best fits their gender identity, and bans them from playing on the most appropriate sports team.
The order specifically calls out social transitioning of transgender students in public schools. Social transitioning may include things like coming out as trans or nonbinary, going by a different name, dressing in a way that aligns better to a person's gender identity, using a different type of voice, and using pronouns that better reflect a person's identity.
Trump's latest attack on transgender youth also targets the schools, teachers, and staff who support them.
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