{"id":31397,"date":"2025-01-23T21:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/watch-lawmakers-refuse-to-say-how-many-genders-there-are-when-confronted-on-capitol-hill\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T21:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:56:58","slug":"watch-lawmakers-refuse-to-say-how-many-genders-there-are-when-confronted-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/watch-lawmakers-refuse-to-say-how-many-genders-there-are-when-confronted-on-capitol-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Lawmakers refuse to say how many genders there are when confronted on Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Lawmakers refused to say how many genders there are when confronted just days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a> proclaimed that there are only two &#8220;not changeable&#8221; sexes: male and female.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Joe Biden refrained from defining gender as strictly binary and issued directives supporting the recognition of individual gender identity on federal documents. This included allowing Americans to select &#8220;X&#8221; as a gender option on their passports, alongside male and female. In contrast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/influencers-praise-trump-declaring-only-two-genders-recognized-us-truth-winning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump&#8217;s order<\/a>, declaring the existence of only two genders, will reverse efforts allowing the use of a gender different from that assigned at birth on documents like driver&#8217;s licenses.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Trump&#8217;s order, Fox News Digital surveyed lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the number of recognized genders, but most members of Congress refused to answer the question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have one meeting to go to, that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m worried about right now,&#8221; Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, told Fox when asked how many genders there are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-puts-higher-education-notice-dangerous-demeaning-immoral-dei-teachings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP PUTS HIGHER EDUCATION ON NOTICE FOR \u2018DANGEROUS, DEMEANING, AND IMMORAL\u2019 DEI TEACHING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another Democrat, Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., told Fox that there are &#8220;two&#8221; genders but that &#8220;people are often uncertain what there is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-targets-culture-war-lightning-rods-early-slate-executive-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP TARGETS CULTURE WAY LIGHTENING RODS IN EARLY SLATE OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These people are ridiculous,&#8221; Democrat Rep. Greg Casar of Texas said as he walked away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other lawmakers who did not say how many genders there are included Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., and Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-reinstates-transgender-military-ban-bid-rid-dei-from-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump is taking aim<\/a> at several of Biden&#8217;s federal orders surrounding gender identity, such as revoking the Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform order, which allowed transgender people to serve in the military.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Lawmakers refused to say how many genders there are when confronted just days after President Donald Trump proclaimed that there are only two &#8220;not changeable&#8221; sexes: male and female. 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