Trump claims there's only '2 genders.' Historians say that's never been true

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Concerns in CanadaFollowing the executive order, trans and non-binary Canadians have told CBC they're concerned about travelling in the U.S. and afraid that this unravelling of trans rights could creep north even more than it already has.
49% : "The executive order, which Trump signed after promising in his inauguration speech that it would be U.S. policy "that there are only two genders," also ordered trans women into male prisons and a halt in the issuance of passports with an "X" gender marker, sparking fear in trans people across the country about their legal status.
48% : Some academics contend that early examples of trans men such as Barry may just have been cisgender women crossdressing to access new job opportunities, and that cisgender lesbians and gay men may have played with gender presentation purely to express their sexuality in strictly gendered societies.
40% : While the administration claims the move is a return to "biological facts," experts say it ignores both biological and historical reality -- that humans have never fit into just two sexes or two genders.
39% : On Tuesday, Trump signed another executive order to cut federal support for gender-affirming care for anyone under the age of 19, despite medical consensus that it is life-saving and necessary.

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