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A “federal registry of genitals”? Plus the migrant caravan presses on, a standoff on the horizon on the Democratic left, and more
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

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Federal Registry: A Department of Health and Human Services memo reportedly seeks to “define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with.” Such a binary definition draws from an unscientific understanding of developmental biology, writes James Hamblin: Implausibility aside, “this is

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