The Trump admin’s anti-trans proposal would hurt 7 million other Americans, too.

There are a lot of things wrong with the Trump administration’s proposal to define gender and sex as an overlapping constant, bestowed upon all children from birth. One is the utter inhumanity; another is the Orwellian idea that they could somehow make an entire group of people disappear just by controlling words. But perhaps importantly is the fact this proposal isn’t based on actual science; it’s based on an overly-simplistic introductory middle school idea of science.

Consider the fact that ~2% of people are born Intersex, meaning that their hormones, gonads, genitals, and/or chromosomes naturally don’t conform to male/female anyway.

That’s some 6–7 million Americans right there, which is about the same population as REDHEADS.

You can’t legislate away the existence of gingers — they will always be there. People will continue to exist on a spectrum beyond the binary of blonde and brunette. But by formally writing them out of your laws, based on junk science, you’ve now made life increasingly difficult (and exponentially more miserable) for millions of people who don’t fit neatly into your categorical boxes.

And for what purpose? What is actually gained by defining humans to such limiting standards? You’re not serving anyone better; you’re not improving the quality of anyone’s life. You’re just making things complicated and awful, so a…