Scientists see a problem with Trump plan on defining sex: biology
The Trump administration's proposal to define sex as an immutable condition based on someone's genitals is an "insult to science," one expert said.
A new report that the Trump administration hopes to legally define a person’s sex at birth — an unchangeable condition determined by genitalia — has prompted an outcry among the transgender community.
But beyond the political implications — and fears that any such change could ultimately mean the end of civil rights protections for transgender people — the proposal raises fundamental questions about something else: biology.
The proposal
