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.

  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social
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    7 days ago

    Your karyotype doesn’t determine what kind of gamete you produce.

    See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitivity_syndrome

    AFAIK we don’t have any way to determine this before sex differentiation actually occurs. When sex differentiation occurs it happens as a response to hormones, not karyotype. It’s possible that environment could be the determining factor, as is the case with freemartins.

    So no, it’s not an exaggeration nor embarrassing to say that nobody meets the order’s definition of male or female.