YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?

Turns out that you got one:

The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a government-wide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.

A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened the legal concept of gender in federal programs, including in education and health care, recognizing gender largely as an individual’s choice and not determined by the sex assigned at birth. The policy prompted fights over bathrooms, dormitories, single-sex programs and other arenas where gender was once seen as a simple concept. Conservatives, especially evangelical Christians, were incensed.

 

Now the Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an effort to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans gender discrimination in education programs that receive government financial assistance, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times.

 

The department argued in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” The agency’s proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with, according to a draft reviewed by The Times. Any dispute about one’s sex would have to be clarified using genetic testing.

“Sex means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth,” the department proposed in the memo, which was drafted and has been circulating since last spring. “The sex listed on a person’s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person’s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.”

 

The new definition would essentially eradicate federal recognition of the estimated 1.4 million Americans who have opted to recognize themselves — surgically or otherwise — as a gender other than the one they were born into.

 

In other words, if it's legally possible to "recognize" yourself into an existence, it's also legally possible to be "recognized" out of one.  What the state giveth, the state taketh away; blessed be the name of the state.

 

That right there is about as perfect an explanation of why DONALD J. TRUMP IS THE LEGALLY-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA as you're probably ever going to find. 

 

What's the difference between Trump and approved establishment "conservative" GOP presidential candidates like John McCain or Mitt Romney?  Why is Trump popular while the other two are deservedly forgotten?  Easy. 

Results.

 

A President McCain or a President Romney would have issued some kind of a disapproving statement or other, "American journalism" would have winked and that would have been that. The story and the concept would have quickly died.

 

But not now.  Is this stupid?  Get rid of it.  Is that indefensible to anyone whose vision still works? Again, if you have eyes to see...

 

Might the concepts that I'm expected to uncritically accept as scientific dogma to be uncritically accepted by eveyone be, you know, oh, what's the word I'm looking for,...wrong?