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Factcheck.org Mangles Scientific Fact-Check Of Trump’s Transgender Orders

Factcheck.org may be the best of the fact-checking websites that recently saw their influence decline when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to break up with them. However, a nearly 3,000-word SciCheck essay from Catalina Jaramillo on Monday proved that is still not good enough to justify the previous partnership, as she took aim at a series of transgender-related executive orders from President Donald Trump.

First, Jaramillo focused on the executive order that declared there to be only two sexes. The order defined female as “the sex that produces the large reproductive cell” and male as “the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.”

That is like saying “Snowflakes are ice crystals formed in clouds and fall to the ground, but experts say they are also white.”  

Jaramillo got super pedantic. She admitted that the definition is accurate, but…

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