A question: is this the way it was always meant to be?
By I.M. Belle
On January 20, 2025, Executive Order 14168 was signed into law. Science, the administration declared, had returned to government. The order would settle the question once and for all. Simple. Biological.
The statements were amazingly concise and conformed to 4th grade biology when we first learned about science. We were taught everyone is either male or female. Basic biology. And for those of faith, just as our creator intended.
Full stop. No need to learn any more biology. Right?
The Rest of the Science
When an embryo first begins to grow, every conceived embryo starts the same way.
Female.
That is the starting point for all fertilized embryos. No exceptions.
No earlier than six weeks into development, if all the stars align, a very specific series of signals must begin. Must be received. Must be processed correctly. Every step must go exactly as required.
Any interference, variation, drugs even approved ones, or the will of a divine being can alter this path away from what 4th grade biology taught you.
Contrary to popular belief our creator did not design a simple boy/girl switch. A complex series of steps masculinizes the always female fetus. Some signals form brain structures. Some establish hormones and form receptors. Some create genitalia which some people view as the whole of who we are.
If any individual signal fails, that associated system continues to form as female.
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Now read what Executive Order 14168 actually says.
“Female means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.”
“Male means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.”
The phrase “at conception” is carrying more weight than its authors might have intended.
The science they returned to confirms that every embryo at conception is female. No signals have fired. No transformation has begun. No reproductive cells of any kind exist yet in anyone. With the right series of signals this embryo can go either way. In the absence of those signals, the path is female.
By the executive order’s own definition, every embryo is female at conception.
As the sun shines on this new day of honoring science, what does the world look like as we stare into a new dawn?
For the first time in American history, federal policy has established a matriarchal foundation.
Not achieved by feminists. Not by progressives. Not by decades of advocacy.
By a single stroke of the president’s pen the United States is a Matriarchy.
Since science confirms every embryo is female at conception, the answer to every federal form asking for sex is the same.
Female.
All of them.
The science was always there. It simply waited, patiently, to be read.
I.M. Belle is a student of Jefferson, armed with Hamilton, and grounded in Madison — a Southern daughter writing at the end of her grace.
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