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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Hawkinson

DC workers fight back against Trump's 'two sexes' order and say following the directive violates the law

Federal employees in Washington, D.C., are fighting back against President Donald Trump’s executive order denying the existence of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people in government, warning it may be illegal to comply with it.

Last month, Trump signed an executive order ordering the government to “recognize two sexes, male and female,” claiming these sexes are “not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”

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