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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExecutive 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,
Its 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 its possible to know chromosomal information, human embryos dont 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
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Terry_M
(793 posts)1. And every marriage is now a gay marriage!
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Frasier Balzov
(4,330 posts)3. NIH seems to say at fertilization (i.e. conception).
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.
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.
Eve was the first transgender - by creation.
For the Bible folks:::
Eve was the first transgender. Originally 100% male.
God was OK with it.