• LostWon@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    Pretty sure according to current science, the sex is “undifferentiated” until a certain point in development. That means Trump wrote it so no one is female, lol.

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      10 days ago

      Even as a zygote, the chromosomes are still XX and XY, aren’t they? (Ignoring XXY, etc.)

      It’s still stupid as hell, and the female thing would be funny-sad, but scientifically I’m not sure it’s accurate.

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        10 days ago

        The EO definition didn’t refer to chromosomes at all actually it referred to female as “at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell” and male “at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.”

        A zygote is a singular cell at coneception… so you could also argue it’s saying everyone’s bigender actually. In any case its extremely poorly written, goes against science, and forgets about intersex people

        (also note that XX and XY chromosomes don’t guarantee AMAB or AFAB. You can have XX chromosomes and present completely AMAB and vice versa)

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          10 days ago

          It wouldn’t be bigender, because that single cell has (again, oversimplifying here) either XX or XY, right?

          Although if that’s how they’re defining gender, then anyone infertile (not producing sperm or eggs) is, by their definition, neither male nor female. So I guess they’re still recognizing a form of nonbinaryness? Just in a really incorrect way.