The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism. The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s…

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    I know the focus is on the trans hatred, but how can they purposely discriminate against intersex people? They have no choice in how they were born. Are they considered immoral just because “god” made them that way?

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      That would be a very Calvinist thing to do, yeah. The church I grew up with thought that being born with a disability was some kind of punishment from god, so it’s just gods will that we do our part and make their life a living hell.

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        The (very dumb) argument against trans is a forced binary that insists you stick with the category assigned to you at birth. Admitting intersex people exist at all contradicts that binary argument entirely.