{"id":271355,"date":"2025-02-21T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/?p=271355"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:00:27","slug":"biological-sex-definition-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/video\/biological-sex-definition-trump-271355","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how the U.S. government is defining \u2018biological sex\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-article-kik\">ANALYSIS: A new document featuring the administration\u2019s attempt to categorize \u2018two sexes\u2019 is needlessly convoluted and contradictory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The new U.S. government definition of \u2018biological sex,&#039; explained | Xtra Magazine\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Xfn26pgHEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s government continues to jump through hoops in its attempts to establish firm binary definitions of \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2025\/02\/19\/hhs-takes-action-president-trumps-executive-orders-defending-women-children.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new documen<\/a>t put out this week by the Department of Health &amp; Human Services\u2014-now led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2014tries to explain why, in the Trump administration\u2019s words, there are \u201conly two sexes.\u201d But in seeking to define \u201cbiological sex\u201d by a person\u2019s \u201cbiological function to produce eggs or sperm,\u201d the Trump administration raises a whole host of new questions and challenges that don\u2019t hold up to established scientific evidence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end\">Senior editor Mel Woods breaks down how these definitions are trying to force a made-up idea of a distinct gender binary onto an actual reality that is far from that, and why trying to draw firm lines around \u201cbiological sex\u201d can be harmful to both trans and cis people alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANALYSIS: A new document featuring the administration\u2019s attempt to categorize \u2018two sexes\u2019 is needlessly convoluted and contradictory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1177,"featured_media":271358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"editorial_slug":"2088","_editorial_slug":"2088","exclude_from_latest_block":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14,5,2,17],"contributors":[1933],"topic":[1825,166,141,109],"clients":[],"series":[],"timeliness":[58],"editorial_format":[33,2088],"type-of-work":[2536],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271366,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271355\/revisions\/271366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271355"},{"taxonomy":"contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributors?post=271355"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=271355"},{"taxonomy":"clients","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clients?post=271355"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=271355"},{"taxonomy":"timeliness","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/timeliness?post=271355"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_format?post=271355"},{"taxonomy":"type-of-work","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-of-work?post=271355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}