Text of the EO is here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presiden...g-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/
Some of the language (emphasis mine):
“Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.
“Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.
The focus is not on sex as assigned at birth but sex at time of conception, an obvious tilt demanded by anti-abortion views.
The problem with this wordsmithing is that it ignores basic science. At fertilization, and for many weeks after, every embryo is female. "At conception" we are are female, and so Trump just defined EVERYONE as female. The sex-specific changes kick in around the sixth week of embryological development when a gene called SRY starts to be expressed. From that point onwards, most people with an XY genotype will follow a male developmental process.
So are all Americans women now? Is Trump the first female president?
Some of the language (emphasis mine):
“Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.
“Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.
The focus is not on sex as assigned at birth but sex at time of conception, an obvious tilt demanded by anti-abortion views.
The problem with this wordsmithing is that it ignores basic science. At fertilization, and for many weeks after, every embryo is female. "At conception" we are are female, and so Trump just defined EVERYONE as female. The sex-specific changes kick in around the sixth week of embryological development when a gene called SRY starts to be expressed. From that point onwards, most people with an XY genotype will follow a male developmental process.
So are all Americans women now? Is Trump the first female president?
Trump's Executive Order Against Trans People Technically Makes Every American Female
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