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usonian

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Wed Jan 22, 2025, 10:37 PM Jan 2025

Executive Order Against Trans People Technically Makes Every American Female [View all]

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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