Re “From D.C., a threat to transgender identity” (Page A1, Oc. 22): President Trump likes kings, so perhaps he could learn a lesson from King Canute, who demonstrated to a bevy of obsequious courtiers that he, the king, could not rule the tides. Denying the nonbinary realities of both gender and biological sex, Trump and religious fundamentalists inside and outside of his administration assert that they can make transgender and other nongender-conforming people simply disappear by legal fiat. Of course they can’t. But what they can do is increase discrimination, stoke hatred, and harm people’s health, access to health care, and well-being. The Trump administration’s malicious and ignorant attack on transgender rights must be sunk.
Nancy Krieger
Boston
The writer is a professor of social epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
