Trump's Trans Ban Defines Everyone as Female - But That's Not the Problem

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Trump's Trans Ban Defines Everyone as Female - But That's Not the Problem

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Story by Elizabeth Yuko (22 Jan 2023)

Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that in the eyes of the U.S. government, "women are biologically female, and men are biologically male" -  meaning transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and two-spirit individuals would no longer be recognized...'

"It's especially egregious that this order defines 'sex' as starting 'at conception,' which is impossible," says Ash Lazarus Orr, press relations manager at Advocates for Trans Equality. "While it's possible to know chromosomal information, human embryos don't show sexual differentiation at that stage - and all embryos initially develop along 'female' lines until later in development."

So, according to this definition, all Americans are female.

Even though executive orders are legally binding, Sarah Warbelow, a vice president at the Human Rights Campaign who leads their team of lawyers, says that they will "take time to go into effect, and will be challenged in court."

"These actions are designed to create division and chaos and serve no other purpose than to hurt our communities and our families, and treat us differently than all other Americans," Warbelow says. "The president may believe that with a stroke of his pen he can rip away our freedoms, but he does not, in fact, have the power to unilaterally do this. We will fight back against these harmful provisions with everything we've got."

[Lori Dee ✅]

The important thing to understand about Executive Orders is that they do not apply to citizens.

Read that again. Executive Orders do not apply to citizens.

Executive Orders are issued by the White House and are used to direct the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. Executive Orders state mandatory requirements for the Executive Branch and have the effect of law. The courts view them as legally valid unless they violate the Constitution or existing statutes. Executive orders, like other unilateral actions, allow presidents to make policy outside of the regular lawmaking process.

The purpose of an Executive Order is to instruct agencies within the Executive Branch how to behave. The Executive (President or Governor) instructs the heads of Executive agencies to make policies or enforce policies for their department. Those policies dictate how the department will be run.

They will affect citizens who utilize those services or are employees of those departments. However, the President or Governor cannot issue an order directly to a citizen. Citizens are governed by laws passed by Congress, not by executives.