There has been an outpouring of anger in the United States from politicians, celebrities and human rights groups over a report alleging the US policy on gender recognition could be changed.
A report in the New York Times yesterday, said a government memo proposed officially defining gender as biological and fixed.
According to BBC News, the change would rescind previous policy which eased trans recognition. Instead, it would define gender solely on the genitalia people are born with.
The administration of former President Barack Obama adopted a definition of gender in federal policy which made it easier to allow individual choice and self-determination.
The change sparked a number of complex and long-running legal challenges in conservative states, in areas like the use of toilets.
The Trump administration has previously tried to roll back transgender recognition in areas such as the military and in schools – but it has not commented on the latest report.
