> The 24 February state department cable obtained by the Guardian instructs visa officers to apply Immigration and Nationality Act section 212(a)(6)(C)(i) – the “permanent fraud bar” – against trans applicants. Unlike regular visa denials, this section triggers lifetime exclusion from the United States with limited waiver possibilities.
It's becoming clear that the current Republican goal regarding transgender people is to establish that being openly transgender is a form of fraud (that is: establishing that trans people stating their gender is an act of deliberate deception), so that they have some basis to prosecute them arbitrarily. Bringing up athletes is just misdirection.