Two is a magic number

Published January 24, 2025 5:55am ET



While the Village People, a disco group famously associated with gay culture, were performing with President Donald Trump over inauguration weekend, progressives were busy freaking out about his reign of terror against LGBT rights. On Day One, it began. 

That is, if, by reign of terror, you mean recognition of basic biological reality. “There are only two genders: male and female,” Trump declared in his inauguration speech before signing an executive order later that day to affirm this simple idea. The order means no more “gender X” passports, no more official documents based on gender identity rather than biological sex, and no more trans-identifying men in women’s prisons.

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