To: Department of Health and Human Services, The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Donald Trump

Stop Trump's trampling on the rights of transgender people

We #WontBeErased.

The Trump administration wants to roll back the legal construct of what gender is, to make it so that gender is defined as a "biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth." This spits in the face of science, it spits in the face of every transgender person, and it spits in the face of children who were just starting to feel safe to explore their gender identities. Transgender people suffer enough bullying that we don't need it from the government too. Lawmakers need to stop being allowed to decide how Americans are allowed to define themselves.

Why is this important?

I am a transgender woman, and I have been out for 11 years. I've had to tolerate the government randomly getting to decide, instead of me or my doctors, what gender belongs on my various documents. If Trump succeeds in this inhumane plan, we will be regressing to outdated 1950s standards. I say no more. We fight for all rights.