The order to introduce gender self-identification never came into force. Two dozen states brought lawsuits; court orders stayed its implementation; and a few months later Donald Trump was elected president. It seems surpassingly unlikely that the new president, a man demonstrably unconcerned with women’s rights or boundaries, cared about the threats gender self-identification posed to both. Nonetheless, the policy was a left-wing creation and had gained no traction with Republicans, and so, after he took office, his administration let the nation’s schools and universities know that ‘sex’ no
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