United States President Donald Trump’s far-right program began by attacking transgender and non-binary people, and women.

His first executive order on January 20 declared that “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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The executive order states: “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.”

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

A Nature editorial in 2018 argued against classifying 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 is a “spectrum that includes transgender people and those who identify as neither male nor female”.

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