Summary
Representative Sarah McBride, the first out trans congresswoman, criticized Donald Trump’s executive order defining gender as strictly male or female.
McBride points out that biologically all embryos develop as female until the SRY gene activates weeks after conception.
The order, which ties gender to reproductive cells at conception, unintentionally categorizes all humans as female from conception based on biological facts.
McBride’s remarks highlight scientific flaws in the policy.
Theres two possible interpretations due to the at conception bit I think. Either he made everyone a woman, or he abolished gender all together. Either way this EO make Trump the single largest gender changer in history as he just changed the gender of either ~150 million or ~300 million people.
“At conception” leaves no room for interpretation - he abolished gender altogether.
It’s fun to think about the hypotheticals, but the reality here is that it does not matter the exact words in the EO. We know what they mean, and they won’t let some silly technicality stop them.
I really would like to see some people ask for a divorce off the fact that they were married under false pretenses. They believed they were marrying a man.
Remember that sex =//= gender.
From what I read of the executive order, it seemed like he specifically got rid of gender and only recognizes sex since that isn’t an identity thing.
Oh, true, the article right there says “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” he declared.
Well, that’s just dumb.
It reads to me more or less like “It’s the official policy of the United States that mass and weight are the same thing.”
Like I can understand the confusion that some people would have over such similar concepts, but to claim they’re the same is just ridiculous and very easily disproven.
It’s definitely 80 year old senile old man logic.
He didn’t actually write any of these orders. I am not sure he would even be capable.
The question becomes who did write this order.
It sounds like an 80 year old dudes opinions either way.
I totally get what you are saying. I think it would be cool to know who actually drafted all these up. It is clear Trump did not. Understanding who is writing these and who is actually calling the shots in the Trump apparatus is paramount to unraveling the truth about what is going on.
I think it is past time to keep pretending the President is the one who makes decisions. It is clear there are a lot of people that the American public does not even know that are the real policy makers.
Demented Fartypants McGee over there as commander-in-queef to the most powerful military in the world. No biggie.
E pluribus unum, baby.