Bullseye on our backs
\EDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Voice contacted Log Cabin Republican Dallas President Blaine LeBron for his reaction to President Trump’s executive orders. Read his responses in their entirety here. GEOFF MULVIHILL, AYANNA ALEXANDERand KIMBERLEE KRUESI | Associated Press President Donald Trump on Monday, Jan.
20, within hours of being inaugurated to a second term, signed executive orders rolling back protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government in what he described in his inauguration speech as a move to end efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.” Both are major shifts for the federal policy and are in line with Trump’s campaign promises.
One order declares that the federal government would recognize only two immutable sexes, male and female — despite the fact that science describes gender as a spectrum rather than a binary.
The definition will be based on whether people are born with eggs or sperm, rather than on their chromosomes. The change is being pitched as a way to protect women from “gender extremism.” Under the order, federal prisons and shelters for migrants and rape victims are to be segregated by sex as defined by the order.
