Is Trump the first female president?
Has the moment we’ve all been waiting for arrived? After Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris both failed to break the biggest glass ceiling, has a woman finally reached America’s highest office? Legally, is Donald J. Trump the first female president?
There was a flurry of commentary this week suggesting that, by the Trump administration’s own definition, this may very well be the case. On Monday, you see, Trump began his second term by signing a barrage of executive orders, including one that says sex begins at conception — when, Trumpian science dictates, Are you a woman or a man and that’s it.
“‘Female’ means a person who, at conception, belongs to the sex that produces the major reproductive cells” Reads the order. “‘Male’ means a person who, at conception, belongs to the sex that produces the minor reproductive cell.”
Despite Trump’s decree that gender is “immutable,” the wording of his executive order left some room for interpretation. In fact, some critics noted that since the undifferentiated embryos with male and female organs participate very early in embryonic development.phenotypically female”, you could argue that this just made everyone legally female.
“[Trump] Based on the language of the executive order alone, everyone is considered a woman by conception,” said Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware, the first openly transgender woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. freeFor example.
“Did Trump’s Executive Order Just Make Every One of American Women?” Mashable asked the same. The piece added: “All Americans are now AFBT (female assigned by Trump).”
So, is this an accurate diagnosis? Did Trump mistakenly declare himself the first female president?
It would be extremely satisfying if the answer to this question is an unequivocal yes. But the more accurate answer is: No, although there is room to argue that the executive order defines all human beings as non-binary, including Trump. Still, you can see why so many came to a conclusion that the executive order was assigning everyone as women; The vague and ambiguous executive order underscores just how complicated sex is.
Most scientists now reject the idea that gender is strictly binary. Likes of Nature, possibly one of the world’s most respected scientific journals, notes that “the research and medical community now understand sex as more complex. Man and woman“And there’s a lot of disagreement about how those categories should be defined. “Scientists themselves can’t agree on how to define the two sexes,” says Rachel Levin, a neuroscientist at Pomona College who studies sex. “To say that gender is simply and easily defined — and defined at the time of pregnancy — is factually incorrect,” she told me over the phone.
There are many factors that play a role in how we think about sex, including physical characteristics, hormone levels, gamete size (larger gametes are eggs while smaller gametes are sperm), sex chromosomes, etc. Trump’s executive order seems to link sex only to gametes. Size at conception. This is despite the fact that there are many academics. Moved away from the gender classification system. Primarily based on gametes because some people will never produce gametes. And, while it’s true that most people inherit either an XX (usually female) or an XY (usually male) chromosome at conception, declaring that gender is determined so early Too easy. “Most of us develop on a particularly normal path, but many of us don’t,” Levin notes. “One very important thing for the people to realize is that the president announcing something does not make it true.
What this all boils down to, in short, is that sex is more complicated than Trump’s executive order would have you believe. Shocking, I know. Who would have thought that the guy who suggested “nuking hurricanes” to prevent them from hitting America wouldn’t be the most reliable scientific voice ever?
I’ll tell you the obvious, though: Trump’s executive order has absolutely nothing to do with the stated intent of “defending women.” Rather, abortion rights advocates are warning that his focus on gender determines Trump’s acceptance of “fetal personhood” at the time of “conception”: The idea that life begins at conception and that fetuses and fetuses deserve full legal rights and protections.
“I think it was a deliberate way to normalize the idea that fetuses are people,” Dana Sussman, senior vice president of Pregnancy Justice, told the Guardian. “This is another attempt to codify it in some form.”
And these attempts to give full legal rights to the fetus – which can result in abortion. It is considered a massacre. – Just going to continue. We’re only a week into Trump and, I don’t know about you, but I’m already exhausted.
Mississippi legislature introduces the ‘Contraception Begins at Erection’ Act
The bill, introduced by a Democrat, would make it illegal. “For a person to release genetic material without intending to fertilize an embryo”. No ejaculation without birth, basically. There have been many of these ridiculous bills in the past; No one expects them to go through but they are about to provoke a conversation about the role of men in pregnancy. In 2017, For examplea Houston Democrat filed a bill that would have fined men $100 for masturbating. In 2021, a Pennsylvania Democrat introduced “legislation that would All inseminators are needed Get sterilized within six weeks of having your third child or your 40th birthday, whichever comes first.” While these stunts are funny, I don’t know how effective they are. Anti-abortion extremists are zealots who are absolutely ridiculous. are not affected by
The ICC chief prosecutor has sought arrest warrants for Taliban leaders accused of violence against women
This is apparently the first time a prosecutor has built a case around systemic crimes against women and girls.
In France, the woman who refused to have sex was not ‘at fault’ in the divorce, the court ruled
A French court has found that a woman who stopped having sex with her abusive husband was “at fault” in the divorce. (Yes, really.) The woman had to take her case to the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled against France and said that any notion of marital duty must take into account “consent” as a basis for sex. is necessary
The bishop who angered Trump over his plea for clemency says she won’t ask for clemency.
Trump declared that Marian Edgar Bude was obligated to “apologize to the public” for encouraging “compassion” toward immigrants and LGBTQ+ people. You can read his entire sermon here.
Sudanese women face rape and abuse in Libya.
More than 210,000 Sudanese refugees are now in Libya and many more. Facing “Living Hell”..
Iraqi law allows child marriage.
The new law removes a previous ban on the marriage of children under the age of 18 from the 1950s.
A 13-year-old boy in Gaza was reportedly shot dead by Israeli forces during a ceasefire.
Zakaria Burbakh was apparently shot dead by a sniper 24 hours after the ceasefire was implemented. CNN reports.
Studies show that men have become twice as tall and heavy as women over the past century.
Researchers think it depends on sexual selection. “[W]”Omens prefer tall men,” one of the study’s co-authors told CNNWhereas, “In contrast, women’s height is not as important”. He added: “This is one of the first studies to establish a link between human evolution through sexual selection and ultimately the effects of the environment on our phenotype.”
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A Maine coon cat called Mittens was accidentally left in the cargo hold of a plane and ended up making three trips in 24 hours between New Zealand and Australia. It seems Mittens was in a forgiving mood after the trip, however; Her family have said the normally reclusive cat “is the cutest she’s ever been”. After all this travel, I hope the airline gives Mittens enough frequent flyer points to fly first class on his next trip.
