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Apple, Amazon, Google and More Than 50 Other Companies Sign Letter Against Trump Administration's Proposed Gender Definition Changes (cnbc.com)
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google, and dozens of other tech companies have come together to condemn discrimination against transgender people in the face of actions President Donald Trump is reportedly considering to reduce their legal protections. From a report: The move is a response to an Oct. 21 New York Times report that the Trump administration is considering limiting the definition of gender to birth genitalia. "Sex means a person's status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth," the Department of Health and Human Services proposed in a memo obtained by the Times. If legislation were to move forward, it would jeopardize legal protections for an estimated 1.4 million Americans who identify as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth, the Times said.
The statement from the companies, which have nearly 4.8 million employees, said diversity and inclusion are good for business. "Transgender people are our beloved family members and friends, and our valued team members," the statement said. "What harms transgender people harms our companies."
The statement from the companies, which have nearly 4.8 million employees, said diversity and inclusion are good for business. "Transgender people are our beloved family members and friends, and our valued team members," the statement said. "What harms transgender people harms our companies."
The government is changing (back) its definition for its purposes. The companies don't have to attentionwhore about it and can continue using their own definition for their own internal purpose if they want to.
Many of their employees have these conditions. Some people do get messed up at birth genetically, hormonally and psychologically.
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Not quite. The field of sociology makes a distinction between sex and gender. Sex is the simple biological part to which you refer: Male or female, and in a very small percentage of cases intersex. Gender is the social expression and recognition of sex, and it's a lot more complicated and flexible - gender is what determines how you should dress, which jobs you are expected to go into or to avoid, which restroom you can enter, and if you are socially allowed to carry a handbag. Usually sex and gender are in clear alignment, and everyone is happy - people know their place and how to behave. When they do not align, unpleasantness happens.
We already do have that distinction in the language: sex (which is biological and generally binary, albeit in very rare cases it can be slightly less binary), because that's what the word "sex" means, and gender, which can be whatever society wants it to be, because gender refers to the societal presentation of masculinity/femininity/whatever else. People sometimes confuse the two (such as in the summary, which claims that a sentence that explicitly says "sex" is talking about "gender").
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Actually using chromosomes to determine sex was abandoned long ago in sport. Turned out to be unreliable, people would XX chromosomes could have male levels of testosterone and male levels of strength/speed.
These days the IOC and many other sporting bodies use testosterone levels as their bar, but it's less a determination of sex as it is putting athletes into competitive categories, kinda like how boxers have weight divisions.
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