“You can’t make everyone happy. You’re not a taco.” While this hilarious line might sound like lighthearted humor, it cuts straight to a key truth: people will always find something to disagree on. And boy, if one thing is sure to spark a series of arguments, it’s the topic of gender. As we see in the case of Donald Trump’s second inauguration speech, where the new President made a bold promise: there will be only “two genders” recognized in the United States going forward: male and female.

Donald Trump | Credits: Image by Gage Skidmore, licensed under Cc-by-sa-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Monday’s inauguration ceremony, held indoors due to freezing temperatures in Washington D.C., was no ordinary swearing-in. Amid the usual pomp and circumstance, Trump’s words quickly set social media on fire, particularly his statement about gender. As the 47th president of the United States,...