ecessary to define “male” and “female” at all, let alone in terms of “reproductive cells”? “Male” and “female” are common words in everyday speech. The same goes for “woman” and “man,” which are ubiquitous. And where did the EO’s defining phrase “adult human female” come from?
The answers lie across the Atlantic, in that drizzly sceptered isle, known affectionally to its gender-critical inhabitants as TERF Island. “British feminists,” Susanna Rustin writes in her fine history of British feminism, Sexed, “are at the heart of the movement to resist the philosophy or ideology that says every human being has an inner gender.” Some of these feminists may not wish to admit it, but Trump’s Executive Order owes much to them.
But read it all.
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