Biologists Rip Trump’s 'Non-Sensical' Executive Order Declaring Only 2 Sexes
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“Clearly, this order is not fully informed by current biological science,” said Dr. Richard Bribiescas, president of the Human Biology Association.

Summary

Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring only two sexes, male and female, based on reproductive cells at conception, banning gender-affirming care, and limiting federal recognition of gender diversity.

Experts, including Dr. Richard Bribiescas, president of the Human Biology Association, criticized the policy as nonsensical, stating, “Clearly, this order is not fully informed by current biological science.”

Biologists noted the order oversimplifies human biology, ignores intersex individuals, and conflates sex and gender.

Critics warned it advances anti-trans rhetoric and risks legal challenges.

  • lunarul@lemmy.world
    43·
    2 days ago

    conflates sex and gender

    I read the order. It explicitly avoids defining gender and says that only sex should be used everywhere (which it does define, but incorrectly).

    It basically says that the government doesn’t care about your gender, they just want to know what’s in your pants (or used to be).

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      58·
      2 days ago

      they just want to know what’s in your pants (or used to be).

      At the moment of conception…

      Of course that’s the real poison pill of this. The real intention is to declare personhood at conception… and pave the way for the nation wide abortion ban. Making things worse for trans people, is just the decoy.

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
        25·
        2 days ago

        At the moment of conception…

        Doesn’t everyone start out female and then become male or stay female?

        • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
          29·
          2 days ago

          Conception is literally the point when the sperm fertilizes the egg:

          Conception (or fertilization) is when sperm and an egg join together.

          reference

          At that point it’s not anything, it’s just a fertilized egg. Assigning a sex to it makes no sense at all.

            • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
              16·
              2 days ago

              At conception, yes, there is no sexual differentiation. In humans the SRY protein is responsible for a fetus developing male sexual characteristics. The effects of this gene are expressed after week 6 of development:

              SRY gene effects normally take place 6–8 weeks after fetus formation which inhibits the female anatomical structural growth in males. It also works towards developing the secondary sexual characteristics of males.

              That is, at least a month and a half after conception.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 days ago

        If they declare personhood at conception some pregnant women should demand to be allowed to purchase a life insurance policy, and immediately sue when denied.

        • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          The levels of chaos that can come from this are off the charts… Yeah someone can purchase life insurance on an unborn child… at the same time every miscarriage is on the board for manslaughter/homicide, basically leading mothers to prove that the miscariages were not intended or negligent. The ramifications and definitions of things are outright terrifying.