Transgender Americans are getting whiplash as legal protections they secured under former President Barack Obama continue to vanish in the Trump administration.

Obama sidestepped Congress to achieve those rights, speeding things up in a drive for what he called inclusion and social progress. But that method has made it easy for President Donald Trump to hit the rewind button.

Transgender policy shifts since Trump’s election victory have run the gamut, from bathroom use in schools to enlisting in the U.S. military. On Tuesday, the Justice Department rescinded an Obama-era memo that directed federal prosecutors to interpret the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 to bar workplace discrimination against transgender employees.

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