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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

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

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

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 months ago
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The White House officials grouped both orders under the Trump administration’s wider “restoring sanity” agenda.
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    Even ignoring socially constructed gender identities, in the case of biological sexes, this is scientifically wrong. The world doesn’t fit into neat little boxes like these people think it does

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      His next trick will be to define pi as 3

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        Just putting this here if anyone is interested in someone actually trying to have done something similar.

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        In order to reduce the cost of space launches, executive order gravity to be smaller.

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      Fascists think they can force the world into their boxes through violence and cruelty. We must never stop resisting.

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      I mean if he plans to kill all intersex people then there will be two sexes.

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      Science is a joke to you huh

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        It’s not a gospel and yeah it’s sometimes funny. But mainly it’s an elegantly regimented way to explore the world around us

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        https://www.playstation.com/en-us/accessories/access-controller/

        edit: on a more serious note, yes, when studying the biology of humans or similar organisms probably 99% of the time you can pretend there are only two genders/sexes, but

        1. that doesn’t make it true
        2. even just 1.7% of the U.S. population is still a pretty big number (~580k people)

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