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.

  • @Dasus
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    53 hours ago

    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.

    • @danc4498
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      53 hours ago

      It’s definitely 80 year old senile old man logic.

      • @Doomsider
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        22 hours ago

        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.

        • @danc4498
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          127 minutes ago

          It sounds like an 80 year old dudes opinions either way.

      • @Dasus
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        13 hours ago

        Demented Fartypants McGee over there as commander-in-queef to the most powerful military in the world. No biggie.