Our government has officially gone full TERF
Pharyngula 2025-01-22
Never go full TERF. Here’s another Trumpian declaration:
(a) “Sex” shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female. Sex” is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of “gender identity (b) *Women” or “woman” and *girls” or “girl” shall mean adult and juvenile human females, respectively (c) “Men” or “man” and “boys” or “boy” shall mean adult and juvenile human males, respectively. (d) ‘Female’ means a person belonging) at conception;to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception; to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.
I disagree, though. He’s not declaring all Americans female; he’s instead declaring that we’re all trans, because we changed from an undifferentiated state to whatever sex we’re assigned at birth. Unfortunately, his argument is built on a falsehood, because obviously sex is not immutable, it changes during fetal development, and we get another major shift at puberty (why do all the TERFs ignore puberty? It’s right there in our faces, everyone goes through it, and we definitely change at the cellular and gross morphological level). We can also trigger profound changes with hormones, and more subtly, brains can have properties of either, both, or no sex. You cannot reduce complex human identities to a single cell type produced by a single organ, although these regressive dimwits will try desperately.
Do I need to mention that you are not producing any reproductive cell, small or large, at conception?