President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday compelling schools to ban transgender women from women’s sports.Andrew Leyden/Zuma
President Donald Trump’s barrage of executive orders targeting transgender people has resulted in an immediate catastrophe for trans people, their families, and those who seek to work with them. Federal agencies have scrambled to scrub so-called “gender ideology” from websites and agency guidance, removing valuable information about HIV prevention, research into health disparities, and webpages about sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. Meanwhile, federal employees are ordered to remove pronouns in their email signatures, and agencies have banned Pride events.
Trump signed his first anti-trans executive order within hours of taking…