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usonian

(17,309 posts)
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 10:37 PM Jan 2025

Executive Order Against Trans People Technically Makes Every American Female

It technically defines everyone as female. It states:

“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.". ???

Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, DingDong just defined EVERYONE as female.

However,

“It’s especially egregious that this order defines ‘sex’ as starting ‘at conception,’ which is impossible,” says Ash Lazarus Orr, press relations manager at Advocates for Trans Equality. “While it’s possible to know chromosomal information, human embryos don’t show sexual differentiation at that stage — and all embryos initially develop along ‘female’ lines until later in development.”


Various sources agree on this.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-trans-ban-executive-order-1235243876/

https://mashable.com/article/trump-executive-order-sex-female-male-gender

https://www.iflscience.com/trumps-executive-order-against-trans-people-technically-makes-every-american-female-77710

OK. posting this. Got to pee. Not sure how and where.

I'll figure something out.
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Executive Order Against Trans People Technically Makes Every American Female (Original Post) usonian Jan 2025 OP
And every marriage is now a gay marriage! Terry_M Jan 2025 #1
... 2naSalit Jan 2025 #2
NIH seems to say at fertilization (i.e. conception). Frasier Balzov Jan 2025 #3
The references discuss outliers. usonian Jan 2025 #5
Eve was the first transgender. Originally 100% male. keithbvadu2 Jan 2025 #4

Frasier Balzov

(4,330 posts)
3. NIH seems to say at fertilization (i.e. conception).
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 12:34 AM
Jan 2025

The chromosomal sex of the embryo is established at fertilization. However, 6 weeks elapse in humans before the first signs of sex differentiation are noticed.

usonian

(17,309 posts)
5. The references discuss outliers.
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 01:24 AM
Jan 2025

Which I don't understand. Zero biology classes. Lots of tech, self-taught. Integrated Circuits were brand new when I was in college.

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
4. Eve was the first transgender. Originally 100% male.
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 01:10 AM
Jan 2025

Eve was the first transgender - by creation.

For the Bible folks:::

Eve was the first transgender. Originally 100% male.

God was OK with it.

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