The problem with Biden’s executive order – which he signed on 20 January 2021, the day of his inauguration, so keen was he to demonstrate his allegiance to the trans ideology – is that it completely redefines sex. Sex, in both everyday life and for the purposes of the great modern drive to stamp out sexual discrimination, was always understood as being of biological origin. There were men and there were women, and women should not be discriminated against. Simple. That has all changed in recent years. Biden’s expansion of the idea of sex to include ‘gender identity’ has rendered the category of sex all but meaningless. When men can be women and women can be men and all of us can neither, if that’s what we choose, it becomes impossible to have a serious discussion about sex, the sexes, and what the sexes – especially the female sex – might sometimes require in order to ensure their equality in society.
Indeed, Biden’s conversion to the trans religion has driven a juggernaut through the old protections from sexual discrimination. His executive order directed all federal agencies to update their protections against sexual discrimination to include protection against gender-identity discrimination, too. Educational institutions, immigration officials, departments of housing – all were instructed to outlaw discrimination on the basis of a person’s imaginary gender. The end result? Fairness and justice on the basis of sex, hard fought for by women’s campaigners, has been devastated.
[It’s a menace to objective truth, and it’s a menace to women in general. — Ed]
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