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.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    21 hours ago

    I think the bigger issue is hiding in plain sight:

    a person belonging, at conception

    Personhood does not begin at conception.

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        18 hours ago

        It’s a P2025 script. Oklahoma made it into law into September, with the same ridiculous misunderstanding of basic biology. It doesn’t matter, they know who they are supposed to oppress.

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        43 minutes ago

        You should apply for a second birth certificate, on the grounds that both of the “people” who were conceived were actually born. You should seek a second SSN, claim them as a dependent on your taxes.

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          30 minutes ago

          That would be an interesting approach to how to deal with me being trans. “Actually you only issued my brother his birth certificate, I’m the sister, here’s the proof I was born”