State Reps. Dan Frankel, D-Allegheny, and Brian Sims, D-Philadelphia, on Oct. 24 jointly condemned efforts by the Trump administration to roll back federal civil rights protections for transgender people.

Their actions were prompted by news that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is attempting to impose a restrictive definition of gender as a biological, immutable condition determined at birth and limited to “male” or “female.” Doing so would remove protections available to transgender people under current civil rights laws such as Title IX, which bans gender discrimination in education programs that receive government assistance.

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