Rhiannon Ingle
It's only been three days since Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th president of the United States, and he's already made every American technically female with a seriously controversial new order.
The 78-year-old Republican leader signed a series of executive orders in his first 24 hours in the role - one of which states there are 'only two genders'.
"As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female," Trump said during his inaugural address.
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The policy reads, in part: "Agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination.
"These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality."
This means that transgender, non-binary, intersex, and two-spirit individuals would no longer be recognised.
The order will also bring to an end 'wasteful' government programmes which promote diversity and inclusivity, as well as 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
Trump, who has also called for new credentialing for teachers to 'promote positive education about the nuclear family, the roles of mothers and fathers', as per the Guardian, has five children with three different women.
However, the order, which is a total affront to trans and other LGBTQ+ rights and protections, also includes a section with definitions that simply do not align with very basic biology.
The order claims that 'female means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell' while 'male means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell'.
"It’s especially egregious that this order defines 'sex' as starting 'at conception,' which is impossible," says Ash Lazarus Orr, press relations manager at Advocates for Trans Equality.
"While it’s possible to know chromosomal information, human embryos don’t show sexual differentiation at that stage — and all embryos initially develop along 'female' lines until later in development."
So, by the definition mapped out in the executive order, all Americans are female.
Orr told Rolling Stone: "This obsessive focus on 'sex at conception' - something that can’t even be determined — reveals the administration’s anti-science stance and its commitment to spreading falsehoods about how sex and gender actually function."
Deleware Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, told the Independent: "Well, it appears that he just declared everyone a woman from conception based on the language of the executive order."
Tyla has reached out to the White House press office for comment.