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[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (16 children)

The article title is misleading. It's true that there are only two sexes, but Trump's order is concerning gender, which is a spectrum.

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 29 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Intersex people popping out of existence upon reading your comment

[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Male and female are the only sexes; intersex is just a blanket term for various medical conditions that describe abnormal development of sex characteristics.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago

And some of them are not obviously male or female from birth, but are given surgeries to force them into one or the other. Sometimes they get it wrong.

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