I find this fascinating (although of course also horrifying), and I haven't seen anyone on any of the mainstream media outlets paying attention to it. Here's a little nugget hidden away in Section 1 of the Muslim ban (my source for the text is CNN):

"The United States cannot, and should not, admit those who do not support the Constitution, or those who would place violent ideologies over American law. In addition, the United States should not admit those who engage in acts of bigotry or hatred (including "honor" killings, other forms of violence against women, or the persecution of those who practice religions different from their own) or those who would oppress Americans of any race, gender, or sexual orientation."

And later on, in Section 10, in the list of information types that the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General will have to release to the "American people" every 180 days:

"(iii) information regarding the number and types of acts of gender-based violence against women, including honor killings, in the United States by foreign nationals, since the date of this order or the last reporting period, whichever is later;"

Of course "honor killings" is a dog-whistle phrase, meant denote to the murder of women specifically by Muslim men, as against the murder of women by Christian or white men, which is often motivated by perceptions of male honor but which Trump seems not to think is a big deal, just as he does not seem to think that domestic violence committed by Christian or white men is a big deal. I say this because his budget apparently includes plans to eliminate funding for Violence Against Women grants that are run through the Department of Justice. (So he's going to track domestic violence committed only by Muslim men, or immigrant men? But remove any kind of funding for helping the victims, because that, to him, is hardly the point. One wonders whether those grants are what allows the DOJ to collect statistics on domestic and gender based violence as well--how exactly does Trump plan on finding out about these crimes? Perhaps he'll just intuit some data, as he often seems to do).*

Going back to the first quote, one wonders what happens when the First Amendment Defense Act, so-called, is passed--couldn't any homophobic or transphobic immigrant, from any country, argue that he or she was perfectly supportive of the Constitution as currently read by the administration? Or is it that discrimination based on the idea of freedom of religion is only allowable for non-immigrants? Or non-Muslims?

I am flabbergasted by the total ridiculousness of all this.Not to mention disturbed. As both a woman and a lesbian, I object to the use of my body as a pawn in this travesty of an executive order. If you're so worried about me getting beaten up or discriminated against because of who I am, don't pass laws that make it legal for some people to do it while demonizing others who might. If it's wrong to do, it's wrong for everyone, and if, from Trump's perspective, (as I suspect) it's not wrong, then he needs to find some other trumped up excuse for his anti-immigrant rampages.

*Don't get me wrong: there are actually good, feminist, reasons to link domestic violence to things like national security and mass shootings or killings: as Soraya Chemaly detailed here in the Rolling Stone back in June, after Orlando, people who perpetrate mass killings often commit domestic violence first. However, this pattern is not limited to Muslims, immigrants, or Muslim immigrants--it's just as true of white American men who commit massacres and whose victims can end up just as dead as the victims of anyone else. Really.