The Trump administration is considering restricting the Second Amendment rights of transgender Americans, reports media outlets as varied as CNN and the New York Post.

This would be an unjustified attack on the constitutional rights of Americans to defend themselves and it is absurd the administration is even considering it.

The Constitution, as affirmed by the United States Supreme Court, protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Broad identity-based exclusions from this right are wholly unjustified.

It is true that some transgender Americans commit crimes, even horrendous crimes like the mass shooting at a Minneapolis school last month.

But that does not mean law-abiding transgender Americans ought to be denied their constitutional rights simply because of who they ar

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