A classic strategy of bureaucratic activism is to create new rules by redefining terms in existing law. It’s very efficient. Instead of having the people’s representatives pass new laws, the people are simply informed of what their laws now “mean” — regardless of what they meant when they were passed.
Nowhere is this more evident or more dangerous than in the recent rush to include gender identity in the legal definition of sex.
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