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Today we're discussing the breaking New York Times report on the Trump administration's

potential attack on transgender rights.

In particular, we're going to introduce you to the person who's likely behind

this effort and someone you need to know about. Roger Severino.

So on Sunday, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is considering

narrowly redefining gender as a biological immutable condition defined at birth.

And so my question to you is, Jess, what the fuck is going on?

Oh, man, that is the question of the Trump administration, huh?

What the fuck is going on?

So what we know from this New York Times report, and it's a doozy, is that the Department

of Health and Human Services is spearheading this effort to redefine gender as, like you said,

a biological, immutable condition defined at birth. And so particularly they're looking at doing this

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