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- Title
"The Defense of the Indefensible": The Uses and Abuses of Words in Contemporary Public Health Policy.
- Authors
ROSNER, DAVID
- Abstract
The article discusses how U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is attempting to narrowly define gender as a biological condition that is determined by the genitalia that an individual is born with, and it mentions American federal civil rights laws and legal protections for transgender people. The author's views about the uses and abuses of words in U.S. public health policy-making are examined, along with euphemisms, parodies of social issues, and an individual's self-identity.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GENDER; DEFINITIONS; TRUMP, Donald, 1946-; ENGLISH language terms &; phrases; HEALTH policy; GENITALIA; CIVIL rights; LEGAL status of transgender people; HIV prevention; ATTITUDE (Psychology); COMMUNICATION; GROUP identity; HEALTH promotion; INTERPERSONAL relations; LANGUAGE &; languages; PUBLIC health; TERMS &; phrases; GOVERNMENT policy; GOVERNMENT regulation; TRANSGENDER people
- Publication
Milbank Quarterly, 2019, Vol 97, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
0887-378X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0009.12361