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DeepWinter

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21. I doubt it

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 04:13 PM

Jan 2025

It's very specifically written "male" "female". There are already Trans activists on TicTok and IG pushing back against ERA because of that.

It's going nowhere though. His statement was a statement of opinion. Hypothetically he does an Executive order. Executive orders are the weakest way to get something done. The next President coming in can make their own Executive order overturning it on day 1.

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