Every now and then, the logjam in Washington shifts. On the rare occasions that one party holds both houses and the presidency, it tends to be maximalist, since another chance may not come for ages. And that is the approach Joe Biden is taking to gender self-identification, even though the issue is highly polarising and he has only a bare majority in the Senate. On his first day in office in January 2021 he issued an executive order to all federal agencies, instructing them to examine their rules and regulations in light of the Bostock judgment. They have been given a pretty firm steer as to
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