The Capitol Building was besieged by participants in a protest against Congress that descended into a riot. For their part in the violence, a few were found guilty in court.
One of them, Enrique Tarrio, the former head of the far-right Proud Boys group, received a 22-year jail term. The Guardian claims that this implies the justice department will stop looking into the event.
Trump has declared that there are now just two genders in the US: male and female, establishing a policy that only acknowledges “two genders.”
“Defend women from gender ideology extremism and restore biological truth,” he stated, was the reason for the action.
In a major setback to trans rights in the US, the judgment further emphasizes that a person’s gender is not “changeable.”
