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.
No, it is. It is at the very least, Ur-fascism as described by Umberto Eco, and has been for at least a decade.
If electing Trump to a second term, and handing the entire federal government over to Republicans isn’t fascism yet, I have to wonder what one’s definition of the word is…