This article criticizes Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for prioritizing Trump’s anti-transgender policies over urgent public health crises, such as declining vaccination rates and threats to reproductive rights. It argues that Trump’s executive orders—erasing gender identity in federal policies, restricting transgender military service, and banning trans athletes—are distractions from the real dangers facing women, including domestic violence, healthcare restrictions, and economic inequality. Originally published at the BerkshireEdge.

Suzanne Bell and Alison Gemmill are quoted.