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President Donald Trump 's executive order designates people as female if they make the “large” reproductive cell.

Reproductive cells change throughout development, so a sex definition based on size is tricky.

In females, meiosis produces one large egg cell and two small infertile cells called polar bodies.

In males, a huge cell replicates its genome several times without splitting up into product cells.

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