<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: Taking Some of the Sheen Off
A “federal registry of genitals”? Plus the migrant caravan presses on, a standoff on the horizon on the Democratic left, and more
by Shan Wang
Oct 22, 2018
2 minutes
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What We’re Following
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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