The US State Department has instructed officials to deny visas to transgender athletes heading to the US for sports events, enforcing permanent bans via Immigration and Nationality Act provisions. This directive follows an executive order by Donald Trump, aimed at preventing trans women from competing in women's sports. Sarah Mehta from ACLU criticized this move, calling it an unusual expansion against a specific group, emphasizing the broader implications for individual rights under immigration law.
The administration's use of the permanent fraud provision represents an unprecedented expansion of immigration law against a specific identity group.
It is quite bizarre and novel in a terrible way to be saying it's based on their misrepresenting their sex or gender in order to come and participate.
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