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BumRushDaShow

(146,207 posts)
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 11:43 AM Jan 20

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 Jan 20 OP
So with the stroke of the pen Crumb The 1st moniss Jan 20 #1
Genetics responds: You're one stupid.... GreenWave Jan 20 #2
That science stuff is so woke. Botany Jan 20 #4
Jesus SAID people were not just all male or all female, in a talk about marriage. raging moderate Jan 22 #15
2 things Botany Jan 22 #17
Well this will certainly bring down the cost of eggs! endgenocide Jan 20 #3
LGBTQ Parents yankee87 Jan 20 #5
Some reporter really needs to contact Caytlin Jenner jgmiller Jan 20 #6
And there are only two colors, black and white HereForTheParty Jan 20 #7
and pi is exactly equal to 3 DBoon Jan 20 #10
The Earth is the Center of the Universe tonekat Jan 22 #19
Same kind of insanity as state legislature in 1800s proclaiming Pi exactly 3 (circle factor, 3.14159...) . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 20 #8
Illegitimate President signs what? johnnyfins Jan 20 #9
I had a good friend/neighbor years ago whose children were both hermaphrodites. mommymarine2003 Jan 20 #11
I know you understand this . . . AverageOldGuy Jan 20 #13
In other news: AverageOldGuy Jan 20 #12
These are merely performative acts that jut wast time and money for nothing. Although every minute spent on stuff like Martin68 Jan 20 #14
This actually is making things worse Blue_Tires Jan 22 #18
Elon Musk has a trans daughter. Is he okay with this? They seem to be estranged. IcyPeas Jan 22 #16

moniss

(6,389 posts)
1. So with the stroke of the pen Crumb The 1st
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 11:51 AM
Jan 20

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

Botany

(72,922 posts)
4. That science stuff is so woke.
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:06 PM
Jan 20

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?

raging moderate

(4,533 posts)
15. Jesus SAID people were not just all male or all female, in a talk about marriage.
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 07:50 PM
Jan 22

Matthew 19:11-12:
Jesus said to them, "Not everyone can accept this teaching, for there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are others who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are those who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven." And he implied that we should cut them some slack, not punitively enforce rigid rules. Right-wing people tend to read or listen to about half a sentence and then jump to conclusions. Anybody who has studied genetics will know that there are genetic variations in sexual identity, and various quotations and statues from ancient times indicate that some babies were born with unusual genitalia and sexual characteristics long ago.

Botany

(72,922 posts)
17. 2 things
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 09:44 PM
Jan 22

1( I got over my LGBT problem years ago being a boring straight dude. I don't have sex with men. This has worked for 40 + years. As per what others do in their own private lives I don't care. BTW I love my LGBT neighbors and friends.

b) Jesus also said don't make a show of
prayer too.

yankee87

(2,472 posts)
5. LGBTQ Parents
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:07 PM
Jan 20

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

(52,062 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
Jan 20

mommymarine2003

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

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

(2,366 posts)
13. I know you understand this . . .
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:05 PM
Jan 20

. . . 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

(2,366 posts)
12. In other news:
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:03 PM
Jan 20

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

(24,870 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
Jan 20

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

 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
18. This actually is making things worse
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 09:52 PM
Jan 22

Even with supposedly meaningless symbolic acts, Donnie's death cult is going to snatch that football and run with it on state and local government levels...

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