Inclusive in our definition of gender

Happy International Genders Day.

President Biden marked International Women’s Day on Monday by signing two executive orders geared toward promoting gender equity, both in the United States and around the world.

In a statement, Biden said: “In our nation, as in all nations, women have fought for justice, shattered barriers, built and sustained economies, carried communities through times of crisis, and served with dignity and resolve. Too often, they have done so while being denied the freedom, full participation, and equal opportunity all women are due.”

With you so far.

The first executive order establishes a Gender Policy Council within the White House, reformulating an office from the Obama administration that was later disbanded by the Trump administration, and giving it more clout.

“Reformulating” it how?

Under former President Barack Obama, the office was called the White House Council on Women and Girls. The name change to the Gender Policy Council is intentional, according to Council co-chair Jennifer Klein, who has worked on women’s issues going back to the Clinton administration.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck.

So by the same token shouldn’t Black Lives Matter be renamed Race Lives Matter? Or would that sound too much like All Lives Matter?

“We are very inclusive in our definition of gender,” Klein said in a White House briefing Monday. “We intend to address all sorts of discrimination and fight for equal rights for people, whether that’s LGBTQ+ people, women, girls, men.”

So there you have it: that is literally all lives matter. Discrimination against women will now be folded into discrimination against people, and “feminism” will become an obsolete word.

The Council’s staff will include a special assistant to the president to focus specifically on “policies to advance equity for Black, indigenous and Latina women and girls of color,” Klein said, in recognition of the historical and disproportionate barriers those groups face.

Women and girls? But she just said it was for men too.

By establishing the council, Biden said, his administration shows its commitment “to ensure that every domestic and foreign policy we pursue rests on a foundation of dignity and equity for women.”

For women? Or for people of gender? Or for women plus LGBTQ+ people plus men?

By establishing the council, Biden said, his administration shows its commitment “to ensure that every domestic and foreign policy we pursue rests on a foundation of dignity and equity for women.”

They seem to be confused.

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