{"id":67505,"date":"2026-02-27T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/science-of-sex-and-gender-being-misrepresented-by-trump-officials-experts-warn\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:02:17","slug":"science-of-sex-and-gender-being-misrepresented-by-trump-officials-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/science-of-sex-and-gender-being-misrepresented-by-trump-officials-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans<\/p>\n<p>As more health systems end gender-affirming care for patients amid a crackdown from the Trump administration, scientists and advocates say the science of sex and gender is being misrepresented \u2013 and will have major repercussions for the healthcare for all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Trump officials \u201cdon\u2019t actually understand the science at all\u201d, said Jey McCreight, who is the founder of Beyond X&amp;Y and has a doctoral degree in human genomics. McCreight, who uses they\/them pronouns, added that using misinformation to limit who can seek healthcare is a warning for all patients.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/27\/trump-administration-gender-healthcare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans As more health systems end gender-affirming care for patients amid a crackdown from the Trump administration, scientists and advocates say the science of sex and gender is being misrepresented \u2013 and will have major repercussions for the healthcare for all Americans. &#8230; <a title=\"Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/science-of-sex-and-gender-being-misrepresented-by-trump-officials-experts-warn\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}