Cogito Ergo Non Serviam
Trump Will Flood DC with Executive Orders
The inauguration of Donald Trump will be the opening event in an attempt to alter the national tone, and the primary mechanism he will use is going to be executive orders. Such orders are standard in the toolkit of an American president. While Congress alone can pass laws, the president can instruct the federal bureaucracy to implement those laws in certain ways. The whining from the ridiculous right about the Deep State is derived from not understanding that such a system gives the president, not the bureaucracy, power. They can be undone by Acts of Congress or court rulings, but those things take time. Meanwhile, the orders will flood DC making it look like Mr. Trump is a man of action when in fact, he is simply a man who likes to hold ceremonies.
The schedule of his day includes an inauguration and some parties but also a signing ceremony for a slew of orders. He will scribble his name in Sharpie on a document bound in one of those neat federal folders, and he will show off his signature to the media (as if to say, I am literate). His fans will cheer not realizing that his signature does not mean the problem is resolved to their satisfaction. This time around, though, his orders could carry more weight as Congress is not going to resist him, and the courts are more friendly to him that before he appointed all those judges (e.g. Aileen Cannon).
He has probably two dozen such orders locked and loaded, ready to go. They will likely range from a load of pardons for domestic terrorists to putting Confederate names back on military bases. One of them, which has been revealed in advance, declares that there are but two genders and the Federal government will make no accommodation contrary to that.
The order opens with, "Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong. Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. 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. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself."
Science says otherwise. For instance, Arnold De Loof published a paper in Communicative and Integrative Biology titled, "Only two sex forms but multiple gender variants: How to explain," in which he stated
If sex and gender would have the very same meaning in all sexually reproducing species, there should be no need for two terms: Sex would suffice. Gender does indeed have no meaning in the few species which only produce one type of gamete, which is egg-like, thus in the few species in which no males occur. Such species have special means to maintain the diploid status of their somatic cells. Gender requires the presence of males and females. But why is there need for two terms? In non-human animal research, gender is commonly used to refer to the biological sex of the animals. Thus in classical biology, the nature of gender is not a hot topic, and hardly ever have efforts been undertaken to come up with a good definition. The opposite situation prevails in the humanities, in particular since the 1960-ties, when some sociologists and historians started raising questions about the reasons why males and females behave so differently, why specific tasks were typically attributed to females or males, and why man and woman were not always treated as equals, e.g. in receiving the same pay for the same work/job.
So much for basing things on science. This is a political misuse of data and theory, but politically, Mr. Trump will take credit for taking on those non-binary people who are already so unpopular that their life expectancies are lower than the rest of the nation. This decree has no immediate impact as it just states the objective. When the bureaucracy starts implementing it, the unpleasantness begins.
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