Sarah McBride laughs off Trump’s anti-trans executive order
www.independent.co.uk
The first openly transgender member of Congress mocked Trump’s executive order

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.

  • Absaroka@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I’m not sure what is more disconcerting. That the people in charge truly are a bunch of fucking idiots.

    Or that those idiots have outplayed and outsmarted the Democrats at damn near every turn for 20+ years.

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      22 days ago

      The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
      – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams