The Trump government plans to eliminate the definition of transgender people, according to "The New York Times".

The Department of Health and Social Services is spearheading the initiative to establish a legal definition of "bad" under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on bad in educational programs receiving funds from the federal government, in accordance with the memorandum cited by the Times .

The paper also notes that the health agency calls on all government agencies to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender, "with a clear biological basis based on science, objective and manageable. "

The department proposes that the" bad "of a person be defined, both for men and women, as unalterable and determined by the bads that have at birth ] according to the document obtained by Times .

A doubt in this respect should be clarified by a genetic test also indicates the memorandum

During the government of Barack Obama several decisions were made in which the legal concept of gender was annulled for federal programs including education and health care, recognizing that bad is largely an option of the individual and that " it is not determined by the bad badigned at birth.

The struggle to enforce this policy resulted in the use of public toilets. , dormitories and other scenarios in which bad was perceived as a simple concept, indicates the newspaper

The proposed new definition of gender would eliminate recognition, under the federal law, of approximately 1, 4 million Americans who chose to be recognized either surgically, or in another way, with another gender from which they were born.

The journal also states that this change would be the most significant of a series. maneuvers, big and small, of this government to exclude this population from civil rights protections and to revoke the Obama administration's gender recognition.

The reaction to a possible Trump government initiative has already triggered all the alarms in LGBTQ rights groups, including the Transgender Law Center, said the plan was an attempt "to erase our existence of transgender people ".

In social media, the label #WontBeErased (will not be deleted, in Spanish) was a trend and groups of activists announced that they were organizing demonstrations on Monday in front of the White House.

The group of LGBTQ rights figures, "The Human Rights Campaign," also called on the Trump administration to reverse the ongoing process.

"Defining" gender "in this narrow language, adapted to the conversation topics of Extremists Against Equality, is part of a deliberate strategy to eliminate the federal protections afforded to LGBTQ people," said the President. group, Chad Griffin, in a statement posted on his website.

According to the report, after more than a year of discussions, the Department of Salud is about to present its new definition to the Ministry of Justice, who must determine if the changes are legal.If they get the approval, they will be used by other government agencies in the next few months.

However, lawsuits should be filed in court by civil rights groups, which could delay or even prevent the government from imposing its restrictive view of the subject.