This week, Kirstjen Nielsen — who Trump reportedly blamed for the surge in migrants — stepped down Homeland Security chief, leaving just three women with cabinet level jobs in his administration: Elaine Chao, Betsy Devos and Gina Haspel
HISTORY DEPT. -- “Casimir Pulaski, Polish Hero of the Revolutionary War, Was Most Likely Intersex, Researchers Say”:
“New evidence suggests that although Pulaski identified and lived as a man, biologically, he did not fit into the binary definitions of male and female, a twist that helps explain why scientists could not previously identify his remains. … The discovery offers historical representation to people who are intersex, a group that has often been stigmatized and overlooked throughout history.” Pulaski, by the way, is credited with saving George Washington’s life in battle.
“We know quite a bit … about women dressing as men and joining the military in the 18th and 19th centuries. There were famous women such as the British marine Hannah Snell who, disguising herself as James Gray, signed up to fight in Scotland against the Jacobite invasion of 1745. Snell was later wounded trying to capture a French colony in India. After revealing her gender, she was granted a pension by the king and made a living performing military exercises on stage.
“In a major blow to the anti-female genital mutilation movement, the Department of Justice has decided it will not fight to uphold America’s FGM law, concluding it is too weak as written and needs to be changed in order to successfully prosecute anyone. That means the female genital mutilation charges against two Michigan doctors and six others will be officially dismissed, just as the defendants had requested, arguing the FGM law is unconstitutional.
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