Trump executive order says federal government only recognizes "two sexes"

[riversedge]

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Source: cbs





By Kathryn Watson, Caroline Linton January 21, 2025 / 6:34 PM EST

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order declaring that it's policy of the federal government to only recognize "two sexes, male and female," reversing the ability of Americans to mark "other" or "X" on federal forms and causing sweeping implications in the way the federal government acknowledges gender.

Mr. Trump has long pledged to alter the way the federal government handles the issue of gender identification, and on the campaign trail, his lines about preventing transgender athletes from participating in women's sports prompted some of the loudest reactions from his rally-goers.

LGBTQ rights groups are pledging to challenge Trump's order where they can.

"Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women's domestic abuse shelters to women's workplace showers," Mr. Trump's executive order reads. "This is wrong."
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[kerouac2]

1. Consenting and the trump way?

Are those the two sexes he means?

Sorry, just so fed up with this monster.

[Oopsie Daisy]

2. How long before the Federal Government only recognizes marriages between a man and a woman? It's coming!

You know it's coming!!!

[LiberalArkie]

12. Followed by not recognizing foreign marriage licenses and closely by only people within the same race.

[pnwmom]

3. Trump is the only one to "deny the biological reality of sex." The biological reality is unquestionable:

it is not a binary. And the physical proof is every single intersex person in the world.

[Walleye]

4. Trump order really says "being considerate of other peoples feelings is against the law"

[Oopsie Daisy]

5. One of their mantras has been "FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!" so it naturally follows *

* that they would pursue any laws, rules, policies and undo any protections and benefits that do not align with their "suck-it-up-buttercup" philosophy.

[Walleye]

6. It is the result of very poor upbringing. Parents are assholes children turn out to be assholes.

[Oopsie Daisy]

7. Yes indeed. I have observed that within certain branches of my own family *

* the ones I avoid. They are not "distant cousins"... but I definitely keep my distance.

[rampartd]

8. "political correct" "woke" even their definition of "free speech"

are just ways of saying "be considerate" or "do unto others"

[Walleye]

9. Really, I don't get the beef. It doesn't cost anything to be nice to people.

[rampartd]

10. bullies gonna bully

a quote from my great grandmother's embroidery .......

"it is nice to be important, but more important to be nice" templeton

[Walleye]

11. It seems like the whole concept of being kind and nice has been put in the trash by these so-called Americans

Being friendly and nice is actually what makes us American

[Yonnie3]

13. Locking - More than 12 hours old.

See https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143376701 an earlier post about this executive order. Please continue discussion there.