If you want something wholesome and endearing to do today, keep the Tesla stock on your screen.

Twitter is completely down and the price of Tesla is in full collapse. It's a bad day for Elon.

Big tell in this Trump order targeting trans people: "at conception"

1. Yesterday, Trump released a broad anti-trans executive order that could have extreme impacts on transgender people's lives if implemented.

There has been much discussion of what it actually does.

In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it.

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13. That will be all for my read of this EO. It's EXTREMELY broad and its impacts will be felt across Trump's government. Much of it will take time to implement, much of it will be challenged in court. I will stay on top of implementation, and you can follow my journalism to stay informed.

9. Fed government will use EEOC to (allow? enforce?) workplace bathroom bans. Not entirely sure how to read this or how it gets implemented. Most likely this is a broad religious freedom in workplaces thing, but we'll see what they do.

Bears some watching.

8. 4(d) is the second REALLY impactful section of the EO. I read it as a federal bathroom ban. Others may read it differently, but I think that this is how this line will be implemented. It will take time to see agencies implement and to root out the specifics of it.

7. "Privacy in intimate spaces" targets trans women (specifically trans women) in prisons, shelters, and more, and would potentially forcibly detransition them.

In Florida, they are already doing this, having trans women shorn, and putting them through conversion therapy and on medications.

6. Small, but end to federal funds to "promoting gender ideology." This was reported earlier as a denial of funds to orgs that acknowledge trans people.

It could also be used as justification to target schools heavily and deny funding to any affirming ones.

Broad though, questionably enforceable.

5. Targeting workplaces and schools for allowing trans people to use the bathroom. Questionable on how enforceable. Agencies like EEOC and Ed will push for it and try. The fear of federal action itself could cause some businesses, schools to yield.

4. Probably the most impactful part of the EO. Directs passports, visas, global entry cards must match sex as defined in the law. Could open the door to revoking identity documents and replacing them with incorrect gender markers for trans people. We saw this in FL, TX. Terrifying portion of the EO.

3 a-b-c: Application of definitions broadly. This basically opens the door to a lot of federal action. VA might say the definition of sex means you can't go to the bathroom of your gender identity. EEOC could go after workplaces. Ed could go after schools.

(This will take time, rulemaking)

Definition section... boilerplate anti-trans language from the most repressive anti-trans states. Would end legal recognition of trans people anywhere Trump has power.

Where? Depends. Title IX enforcement, nondiscrim protections, prisons, workplace policies, maybe fed bathrooms (but not explicit)

Preamble section 1 - looks aimed at removing trans women from women's spaces, including workplaces. No idea yet if the EO has language that tries to accomplish this.

Some states have seen bills to try to weaponize workplace nondiscrimination protections to MANDATE discrim against trans people.

Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it.

You can find it here:

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...