Especially when genitals are involved.

I know this may come as a shock, but I'm not a constitutional or legal expert. I am however pretty sure that the Trump administration's reversal of a 2016 regulation designed to protect trans people from discrimination is mean-spirited, petty bullshit. Oh, and also that J.K. Rowling should probably knock it off when it comes to opining about trans people.

The last thing the world needs is another white guy telling a woman to shut up,
so I just want to be super-clear that I'm referring specifically to some comments
she's been making that sound a lot like she's saying trans women aren't women. 

It just wouldn't be Pride Month without a
"fuck you" from the Trump administration
to at least one of the letters in LGBTQ.

Rowling, most famous for the Harry Potter novels, and then a series of spin-off fiction about culturally appropriating Native American religious beliefs, has now branched out into transphobic tweets dealing with her feelings about trans women which kind of brings us back to the Department of Health and Human Services thing. Last week, during Pride Month no less, the administration finalized the rollback of Obama-era protections for trans people. A move which, according to the HSS, is based on "the plain meaning of the word "sex" as male or female as determined by biology."

Pictured: one of the many American
puppies Donald Trump would drown.

And herein lies the aforementioned petty bullshit. For one thing, Barack Obama was just better at being president than Donald Trump is. How do I know this? Well, for one thing, not once in his presidency did he have to hide in the White House bunker. Anyway, the point is, Trump loves undoing things the Obama administration accomplished. Healthcare, environmental regulations...if Barack Obama had saved a puppy from drowning in a river, Trump would toss it back in. Because Trump hates puppies. Spread that around.

Obama is basically Voldemort for the
right, if Voldemort just wanted
everyone to have health insurance.

I mean, take a look at the HSS announcement in which they can't even bring themselves to refer to the Obama administration by name as if doing so would conjure him up or something:

"In 2016 the previous administration issued a regulation implementing Section 1557...that redefined sex discrimination to include termination of pregnancy and gender identity which it defined as "one's internal sense of gender, which may be male female, neither, or a combination of male and female."

-The Department of Health and Human 

Services, before going outside, spinning

around, swearing and spitting

Which is weird, because Trump is
clearly comfortable talking about genitals.

They say this like it's a bad thing. Admittedly, and as the HHS points out in their announcement, the regulations were already being challenged in Federal Court on, among other things, procedural grounds and weirdly the Religious Freedom Restoration Act-which was about protecting Native Americans from government intrusion-but I think this comes down to the right being confused by and hostile towards things they don't understand. Especially when genitals get involved. 

Restoring the rule of law? Why don't they
just shoot tear gas at the old regulations?

The Obama-era regulation was designed to expand protections under the law, while Trump's reversal seeks to take them away and that's just shitty and uncalled for. It's not, as the HSS announcement says, about "Protecting Civil Rights in Healthcare, Restoring the Rule of Law or Relieving Americans of Billions in Expensive Costs" [their caps, not mine]. It's about pandering to their base and their base is uncomfortable having their beliefs questioned and I guess the GOP would rather see trans people suffer than ask conservatives to educate themselves.

Anyone else like, way over Republicans
loosing their ever-loving minds over
 things they don't understand?

Look, I get that it's complicated and again, I'm not a legal expert, but the Constitution and statues related to discrimination are mostly coming to us from a time before transgender, like as a concept, was understood. And this idea that the rules should be based on a "plain meaning of the word sex when it comes to male and female" is nonsense because no such thing exists. Not for many people and not for biology. Some people are simply born wired in a way that is at odds with their physical characteristics, it's not politics, it's science. 

We know that sex and gender aren't the same thing. That's why we have two different words. And I guess what I'm saying is that it'd be super if the Trump administration, America's anti-discrimination laws and J.K. Rowling would just accept it and let people live their lives.

I mean, if  you're J.K. Rowling and you suddenly find yourself on the same
side of something as Donald Trump, you'd stop and reevaluate, right?