Biden will address your 'gender identity' rather than your sex.

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Biden says Dr Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic — no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability — and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond

So, when Biden says 'woman' I assume he means your gender identity and not your sex. What about those women who cast aside crappy gender stereotypes which are detrimental to women.

TL;DR Don't know if that means it's ok not to get people through this pandemic because of their natal and immutable sex. But don't worry, if you adopt a gender identity, the new administration will get you through it.

Still ok to f*ck women over I guess, 'cos sex not as much a thing as say 'zip code'. Issues related to zip code much more important than issues because of your sex. If you don't see natal and immutable sex, then you can't see sex discrimination. Maybe it all disappears in the first hour of the new administration. Kinda Trump, really. Don't look for it or call it by it's name and hey presto, it's gone.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rachel-levine-transgender-biden-cabinet-assistant-health-secretary-b1789420.html

I hope the huge created industry of child medicalisation doesn't get carte blanche to soar in the US?

I feel a bit bad because Rachel may do a great job, but I'm afraid this appointment causes me concern too. It doesn't surprise me though.

Good point....I bet Rachel's clothing choices won't be analysed.

Loads of people don't have a gender identity.

What of them?

Biological sex is one of the most important distinctions in healthcare that there is.

I hope Rachel can recognise that and acts accordingly. I also hope that this doesn't lead to an uptick in medical literature of terms like 'birthing person', 'pushing person', 'menstruators' etc.

Yes saddened and alarmed by this; I really feel for women on the USA: is there any hope?

Apparently Biden has "promised to restore Obama's trans bathroom policy on day 1".

Unfortunately for a lot of people, from now on if you try to question gender vs sex, you will now be cast as a Trump-minded bigot. It's become simplified now into "good vs bad".

I guess all we can do is focus on UK institutional capture.

I have no issue with the US feds NOT discriminating on the basis of gender identity - why would they? I don’t want them to. I don’t care if Biden guarantees he won’t discriminate on the basis of rising sign or enneagram type or Hogwarts House or favourite Pokemon. I do have an issue with the omission of sex as a basis on which they guarantee not to discriminate. Why not tell the public you won’t discriminate on the basis of sex?

It's become simplified now into "good vs bad"

I agree. I think in a horrifically divided country the focus should be stitching it back together not finding new ways to label and separate, but it is what I was expecting and I didn't want to be proven right (I did really), this is a big problem for women in the US. I hope they are getting ready.

I also hope the Republicans are considering all this and how they shed the Trump obsession and ready to challenge all this because Biden/Harris are just getting started.

How can they omit biological sex as a category?! For many people in so many different contexts it will be their defining characteristic. What about diversity and representation and protection and equality for women?!

BBC have written an article on diversity in Bidens appointment, not mentioning gender issues just make vs female appointments. It’s not OK to laud female appointments as showing any kind of commitment to diversity if those in power won’t or can’t actually discuss or repress biological sex in policymaking. Women appointees will be read as being about biological sex representation and representing the lived experience of women... not about femininity stereotypes representation:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55080344

Has the FWR thread on Bidens nomination of transwoman (Dr Rachel Levine) to a health post been pulled?

Rachel Levine’s Twitter account says nomination is not confirmed into an appointment as yet:
mobile.twitter.com/SecretaryLevine/status/1351647580086743043

Lisa Nandy praising Biden as a ‘woke guy’ has made me cringe myself inside out this morning.

Why would trans rights be so prominent in this intro, I wonder? Ahead of everything including Black Lives Matter?

I’m not anti-Biden on the whole, but am certainly concerned about the issues raised in this thread.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/20/bidens-inauguration-is-a-source-of-hope-says-labours-lisa-nandy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I absolutely want trans people to have the same level of protections as anyone else. But women and same-sex attracted people deserve to have protection too. Which requires recognising biological sex. I find it so shocking and don’t understand how equality can ever be achieved by deliberately omitting ‘sex’. Sex is not gender, never will be.

I can only hope that with Trump out of the way, nuance can start to return to this area of politics.

Perhaps I am hoping for too much.

And, as I've said before, Americans need to start suing and hope the legal system hasn't been captured. It's the only way to get anything done over there.

Why not sex?

To have the first female Vice President - possibly first president as Biden is the oldest President - and yet we have this - women left with no protection in law.

I don’t think she is as dim as Biden. How can she not see the obvious consequences of this. She could do SO much for women and girls.

You couldn’t make it up.

It will be an utter disaster.

I can only hope that with Trump out of the way, nuance can start to return to this area of politics.

I suspect it will be the opposite. Trump was a convenient bogeyman. Now that he's out they have to keep the manufactured moral panic going. The general media and political pundits have expanded the narrative to turn him into some evil nemesis with hoardes of white supremacists at his beck and call lurking around every corner. Everyone is a white supremacist now (apart from those making the claims of course). Considering the sheer volume of people who voted for Trump, this poses an inconvenient conundrum. How to resolve this? Maybe some introspection to decide they might have been wrong on some issues? No! Just expand the definitions and narrative even further! Now there's a new villain in town - 'multiracial whiteness'. 😂

I rarely see evidence of moderate liberals having the courage to stand up against the highly illiberal 'progressives' or whatever people want to call them. They haven't been able to do it so far, so what are the chances they will discover a backbone this late in the game?

No, it will come down to ordinary people, as you say, bringing court case after court case and suing everyone they possibly can. Fingers crossed the strategy works.

NonnyMouse I agree with you except:

Now there's a new villain in town - 'multiracial whiteness

I afraid to ask - but will do. What the...is that???

@UppityPuppity

NonnyMouse I agree with you except:

Now there's a new villain in town - 'multiracial whiteness

I afraid to ask - but will do. What the...is that???

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/understand-trumps-support-we-must-think-terms-multiracial-whiteness/

@UppityPuppity

NonnyMouse I agree with you except:

Now there's a new villain in town - 'multiracial whiteness

I afraid to ask - but will do. What the...is that???

There was a WaPo Op-Ed a few days ago by someone talking about multiracial whiteness. The article wasn't completely without merit but the headline did read like something from The Onion.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/understand-trumps-support-we-must-think-terms-multiracial-whiteness/

[quote BraveBananaBadge]Lisa Nandy praising Biden as a ‘woke guy’ has made me cringe myself inside out this morning.

Why would trans rights be so prominent in this intro, I wonder? Ahead of everything including Black Lives Matter?

I’m not anti-Biden on the whole, but am certainly concerned about the issues raised in this thread.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/20/bidens-inauguration-is-a-source-of-hope-says-labours-lisa-nandy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other[/quote]
"She said she believed UK voters would not be drawn easily into febrile conspiracy-fuelled politics and that the US election showed there was a “ceiling” for the amount of disruptive politics that voters would tolerate in a pandemic."

I think we all know what that ceiling is.

If Rachel Levine is even moderately competent as a medical professional they will understand the crucial importance of sex and should explain the science to Biden.
It is unforgiveable not to include sex, particularly as males are less resistant to Covid than females.

One of Biden's priorities and first acts - to be enacted on his first day in office - will be to allow transgender access to toilets and sports.

Spiked article on Biden and wokeness:
www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/19/joe-biden-is-promoting-wokeness-on-steroids/

"Buckle up Dorothy, Kansas is going bye bye" 😯

I can only hope that with Trump out of the way, nuance can start to return to this area of politics

Seriously? You think the problem this whole time has just been with Trump?

SunsetBeetch, that's not what I said.

In my view, Trump has become a figurehead. Anything that he does the Left automatically hates and his supporters automatically applaud. If Trump stood up and said the sky was blue, the Left would argue otherwise.

The issue is that people aren't looking at the arguments - they just see that Trump is against transgender people using facilities designed for the opposite sex and will automatically take the opposing view. Politics has been unhealthily partisan in the US for years (look at the Tea Party) , but it's become markedly worse since Trump took office.

My hope, perhaps naively, is that with the figurehead gone, people can start to look at actual policies rather than being pro- or anti-something based purely on whether or not they like the President.