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.

  • cannibalkitteh@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    They have more time and resources as many of the challenges are spun off and subcontracted to their cronies. And they don’t especially care if things grind to a halt, that’s also a win for them, they can play victim to the public with it and scream about how they really want to get on with running a government.

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      Many of the orgs fighting them also aren’t governmental like the ACLU, the EFF, and other groups. Plus even localities like cities are even filing lawsuits against his EOs

      Biden had tons of his stuff blocked in courts and got all the blame for the courts blocking it. The public isn’t really good at paying attention to why something happened only that it didn’t

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        14 hours ago

        Yeah, Biden got blamed because his orders failed in courts that were stacked by Trump, pointing to it like it was a sign of his incompetence.

        Dems will be blamed for Trump’s agenda being stalled causing any and all problems for people stemming from his policies that do go through.

        They’re great at twisting everything against the Dems (and, honestly, the Dems suck at pushing back in any effectual manner)