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Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But I know how to apply the gel because I saw posts from trans women how to apply it and I feel that even though are reasons for using it are different that we are not so different

“I don’t just make empty promises, I also keep them.”

“When a family has a child - a wife with her husband or vice versa.” 

“When I sit in the garden for half an hour, or an hour or two, on a Sunday, when the weather is good, it refuels me, and I made a habit out of walking into the garden each morning and maybe maim the lawn, uh, mow the lawn or I tell my wife what I’d like to do in the garden. And then she does it with the gardener.” 

“When you have a trio at the front like Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and, uhm, the other Brazilian, Roberto Carlos. That’s, ah, Rivaldo, too, Rivaldo and, uh, Ronaldinho and Rod, uh, Ronaldo, then, uh, losing that. That’s bitter but not that bitter.”

“It has to be possible, ladies and gentlemen, when I look at the CDU, the representatives of party leadership, in the federal states, the municipalities, then it only needs one thing, a spark, so to speak, in the lazing blembers, the embing blazers, that we can do it and that’s why, the blazing emblers, if I may say so, and that’s why, ladies and gentlemen.” 

And the most famous and puzzling of all: