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.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    Anyone who thinks this shit is funny is in for a rude awakening.

    They do not fucking care. They will use this the exact same way that they would have used it if it was worded correctly.

    You don’t get out on technicalities in fascism; if the autocrat in charge wants to do the thing, he will do it. All of these things will be used as cudgels against perceived political enemies, and marginalized US citizens.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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      11 days ago

      They do not fucking care. They will use this the exact same way that they would have used it if it was worded correctly.

      The reason why this is good news is that the more bizarrely worded the order, the easier it is to get it throw out in court, America even now runs on the WORD of the law, not the intent.