Gender issues. The same goes for science

January 20th, 2025, the first day of the new administration President Trump An executive order has been issued:defending women from gender ideological extremism and restoring biological truths to the federal government.” It did the opposite. The order launched a policy that denied and reduced the rights of those who rejected decades of science regarding sex and gender. Fits Gender stereotypes. This order becomes the target Transgender And while non-binary Americans, there’s nothing more. It targets feminists, women and men who refuse to be constrained by gendered social norms.

Let me explain. As a social scientist who studied gender For 40 years, despite the executive order claims, we can assure everyone that no one has ever denied the biological reality of sex. Scientists studying gender, as Order reads, “didn’t try to replace the invariant biological reality of sexuality with internal fluid, subjective sense of self. Scientists, like everyone else, know that. sexual Dimorphism exists: some have penis and produce sperm, while others have breasts and uterus, produce eggs, and sometimes give birth to babies. It is hogwash to declare that scientists have declared sex to be replaced by a sense of self “unmoving from biological facts.”

As a social scientist, In my own researchI found strong evidence of that Gender identity It is also not always present and consistent with biological sex. sex Identity Your subjective sense of yourself is male or female. Most people who have a body that is a female gender also identify women. Most people who have bodies that are gendered men also identify as men. But not everything. Some people do not identify them as women or men. And there are people whose biological sex is not clear Intersex and can be identified as male, female, or non-binary.

Scientists don’t offer “gender ideology” as we suggest. We provide evidence-based research. We know not from research, but from research Politicsthere are more than two genders, and in fact there are more than two genders (as there are people who have intersex born), which has nothing to do with ideology. Federal funding is currently forbidden from promoting gender ideology, but given that science has never promoted such ideology, there should be no practical meaning for this order.

Currently, the executive order requires the federal government to use “sex” only when enforcing the distinction between women and men. It is on the right side of the federal government, but the results are harmful to those who do not follow stereotypical gender norms, regardless of gender or gender identity. For example, women who are women, but women who wear suits and ties and enjoy masculine styles are worn by the bathroom or by the TSA. Transgender women who have lived as women with female passports for decades and appear to be more feminine than many female sex people are now able to issue passports on male designations, and are much more likely to be suspended and searched than when their passport matches their gender.

The executive order also requires states to halt collection of gender data. but why? As the order implies, if gender identity does not actually exist, isn’t it the best way to prove it with empirical evidence? Why not collect data and show that Americans have gender identities that do not match their biological sex, if any? Only managers who fear scientific evidence will ban scientific data collection. But again, there are many Other scientific topics banned by the current administrationfrom the research Climate change Race, gender, and Ethnicity.

In addition to allowing research, the executive order also prohibits spending that mitigates the lives of transgender Americans, whether in the military or prison. For example, “Refusing to fund medical procedures, treatments, or drugs with the aim of adapting the appearance of a prisoner to the appearance of the opposite sex. We know that from many studies. Transgender people are far less likely to commit suicide If they have medications that maintain the appropriate gender. Trump is also trying to expel trans people from armed services. It is being challenged in court.

The main scientific confusion of leading everything through this executive order is gender and gender confusion. Sex is important and scientists who studied the evidence do not suggest that it is not. However, gender is also important, and scientists who studied the evidence do not suggest that it is not. It is a time in the past that the scientific community gathers together to argue that scientific research is important and that our policies reflect the evidence. Listen to them. We all need good science and we need good science to guide public policy.