opposed to

“It encourages emotion to drive our decision-making behavior, as opposed to logic,” Wright said.

"This is your priority, that you want to bully a member of Congress, as opposed to welcoming her to join this body so all of us can work together to get things done and deliver real results for the American people?"

People opposed to trans athletes’ inclusion say its unfair, and potentially unsafe, for people born with male traits to compete against biological females.

Although Gaetz has little in the way of legal experience, he is a partisan firebrand who excelled in his job interview by speaking in the blunt language of retribution, one Trump advisor told The Bulwark, as opposed to his theories of law and how precisely he’d manage the Department of Justice and its more than 115,000 employees.

But the fact that both are opposed to such a change highlights the tensions this is causing within government – could either, realistically, implement such a colossal change, weighted with moral considerations, which they personally opposed?