United States President Donald Trump’s far-right program began by attacking trans, nonbinary people and women.

His first executive order, on January 20, declared “sexes are not changeable … immutable biological classifications [are] male or female. It is not possible for a person to be born in the wrong sexed body.”

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Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government states “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being”.

It goes on to say: “The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system”.

Trump is not only attacking minorities, he is ignoring science.

A Nature editorial argued in 2018 against Trump’s first move to classify people on the basis of their anatomy.

“As many as one in 100 people have differences or disorders of sex development, such as hormonal conditions, genetic changes or anatomical ambiguities, some of which mean that their genitalia cannot clearly be classified as male or female.

“For most of the twentieth century, doctors would often surgically alter an infant’s ambiguous genitals to match whichever sex was easier, and expect the child to adapt. Frequently, they were wrong.”

It said sex is “more complex than male and female” and “gender as a spectrum that includes transgender people and those who identify as neither male nor........

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