HHS issues new definitions of terms like ‘sex,’ ‘man’ and ‘woman’ that critics say ignore science
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In one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first moves as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the agency released guidance Wednesday for the US government, external partners and the public that offers a narrower definition of sex than the ones used by many scientists and that aligns with a January executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
In one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first moves as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the agency released guidance Wednesday for the US government, external partners and the public that offers a narrower definition of sex than the ones used by many scientists and that aligns with a January executive order signed by President Donald Trump. The department also launched a website promoting these definitions and created a video defending a ban on transgender women participating in women’s sports. HHS says the action was prompted by Trump’s January 20 executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which required the agency to provide “clear guidance expanding on the sex-based definitions set forth in the order” within 30 days. Wednesday’s publication furthers the Trump administration’s efforts to deny the existence of people who identify as transgender, nonbinary or intersex, a sharp departure from the Biden administration’s attempts to create more inclusive health policy and research. The executive order and the new HHS document provide similar narrow definitions of words like “sex,” “female,” “woman,” “girl,” male,” “man” and “boy.” HHS adds definitions like the term “father,” described as a male parent, and “mother,” a female parent. There were slight variations in the definition of “male” and “female.” Trump’s executive order, for instance, said a male is a “person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.” HHS’s definition explains that a male “is a person of the sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing sperm.”
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