Donald Trump, on his very first day as president, signed an executive order designed to ‘protect women from gender ideology extremism’ and to bring back what it termed ‘biological truth’ to federal governance.

This order argued that those who reject the concept of biological sex have employed various strategies to allow individuals to self-identify, potentially gaining access to spaces and activities specifically meant for women.

Trump’s administration proposed to ‘protect women’s rights and uphold freedom of conscience’ by ensuring policies reflect that ‘women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.’

In an attempt to define ‘female’ and ‘male,’ the order inadvertently suggested that all humans might be considered female, defining females as individuals belonging to the sex that produces the larger reproductive cell at conception.

Remember those biology classes? Initially, all embryos appear similar in a stage known as ‘unisex.’

This stage is essentially the female blueprint, only changing when, after about six weeks, embryos with an XY genotype begin developing male features.

According to the National Library of Medicine, human development kicks off from the same foundation, irrespective of whether the chromosomal combination is XX, XY, or atypical. Early fetal development remains the same, with undifferentiated gonads and phenotypically female characteristics.

This piece of the executive order sparked discussions online. One individual quipped, “Yesterday, Trump declared all Americans’ gender at conception. Since human zygotes are female initially, he just made around 160 million citizens F2M transgender.”

Another remarked with humor, “The zygote is female-coding at conception; thus, if sex is determined at conception, as Trump’s order suggests, we’re all female initially! It takes six to seven weeks of gestation for sexual differentiation. All aboard the ‘Let’s go girls!’ train!”