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BumRushDaShow

(145,570 posts)
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 11:43 AM 9 hrs ago

Trump to sign executive orders proclaiming there are only two biological sexes, halting diversity programs

Source: NBC News

Jan. 20, 2025, 10:31 AM EST


President-elect Donald Trump on Monday plans to sign executive orders proclaiming that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, male and female, and ending “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies, according to senior White House officials.

The officials grouped both orders under the incoming Trump administration’s wider “restoring sanity” agenda. The orders were detailed by an incoming official on a phone call Monday ahead of Trump’s swearing-in. The official presented the gender order as part of a policy “defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government.”

The order aims to require that the federal government use the term “sex” instead of “gender,” and directs the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to “ensure that official government documents, including passports and visas, reflect sex accurately.”

The order will also prevent taxpayer funds from being used for gender-transition health care and add “privacy in intimate spaces” in facilities such as prisons, migrant shelters and rape shelters.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/trump-sign-executive-orders-proclaiming-are-only-two-biological-sexes-rcna188388



Lawyers and courts will be very busy.
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Trump to sign executive orders proclaiming there are only two biological sexes, halting diversity programs (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 9 hrs ago OP
So with the stroke of the pen Crumb The 1st moniss 9 hrs ago #1
Genetics responds: You're one stupid.... GreenWave 9 hrs ago #2
That science stuff is so woke. Botany 9 hrs ago #4
Well this will certainly bring down the cost of eggs! endgenocide 9 hrs ago #3
LGBTQ Parents yankee87 9 hrs ago #5
Some reporter really needs to contact Caytlin Jenner jgmiller 9 hrs ago #6
And there are only two colors, black and white HereForTheParty 9 hrs ago #7
and pi is exactly equal to 3 DBoon 8 hrs ago #10
Same kind of insanity as state legislature in 1800s proclaiming Pi exactly 3 (circle factor, 3.14159...) . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz 9 hrs ago #8
Illegitimate President signs what? johnnyfins 9 hrs ago #9
I had a good friend/neighbor years ago whose children were both hermaphrodites. mommymarine2003 8 hrs ago #11
I know you understand this . . . AverageOldGuy 8 hrs ago #13
In other news: AverageOldGuy 8 hrs ago #12
These are merely performative acts that jut wast time and money for nothing. Although every minute spent on stuff like Martin68 8 hrs ago #14

moniss

(6,297 posts)
1. So with the stroke of the pen Crumb The 1st
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 11:51 AM
9 hrs ago

decrees that transgender people do not exist. So omnipotent of him. Perhaps next he will issue a decree declaring the earth is flat.

Botany

(72,840 posts)
4. That science stuff is so woke.
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:06 PM
9 hrs ago

Genetics, morphology, biochemistry, and how a person feels about themself doesn’t
mean it is Biblically Correct. Christo Fascism end of story. This is right out of Vlad
Putin’s playbook.

And speaking of gender identity questions anybody look into J.D. Guy-Liner?

yankee87

(2,436 posts)
5. LGBTQ Parents
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:07 PM
9 hrs ago

Father of LGBTQ children and this frightens me in ways I can’t describe. I remember another country that denied whether a person is legitimate.
I am scared we’re on the way of reeducation camps.

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,880 posts)
8. Same kind of insanity as state legislature in 1800s proclaiming Pi exactly 3 (circle factor, 3.14159...) . . . nt
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:13 PM
9 hrs ago

mommymarine2003

(301 posts)
11. I had a good friend/neighbor years ago whose children were both hermaphrodites.
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:02 PM
8 hrs ago

What happens to children like them today? When their second child was born, my friend's doctor said "it's a boy"; then said "it's a girl". The poor child had to have numerous surgeries in her early years. We babysat her for a weekend when she and her husband, a football coach, went to an away game. The little girl had to take so many pills a day that helped monitor her growth. Such things are so complicated. How can politicians have the right to control people's bodies and determine what is right or wrong when it comes to the sex of a child? This all breaks my heart.

AverageOldGuy

(2,298 posts)
13. I know you understand this . . .
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:05 PM
8 hrs ago

. . . but it's not intended to be reasonable, logical, or medically correct.

It's meant to (1) appeal to the biblethumpers and (2) be cruel to a minority.

I hope the children grew up well.

AverageOldGuy

(2,298 posts)
12. In other news:
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:03 PM
8 hrs ago

T#### announced a 100% tariff on avocados from Mexico and any "male" seen eating avocado toast must drop "his" trousers to have his genitals inspected and if he is found to be a he, he'll be fined.

Martin68

(24,836 posts)
14. These are merely performative acts that jut wast time and money for nothing. Although every minute spent on stuff like
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:15 PM
8 hrs ago

this is one minute less spent on actually making things worse.

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