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.world
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    1 month 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.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      One team is trying to govern, and the other team is trying to win.

      If Democrats lied constantly, denied science, sowed fear and hatred, and used the law to enforce their personal religious beliefs… They’d be indistinguishable from Republicans.

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      They didn’t outsmart them, they just are trying to destroy everything. Their actions aren’t bounded by such qualifiers as “good things happening”.