The New York Times reported last month that the Trump administration "is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law". Before coming to State, I worked for over 25 years on NASA projects.
This suggests that power politics is not some immutable condition of international affairs, but rather a situation that can be overcome through new forms of cognition, cooperation, and contestation.
Facing bankruptcy at the time, the young Disney received the backing to make his proposed Alice series on one immutable condition: Miss Davis, star of Disney's first film about Alice, Alicee's Wonderland," must continue to play the role.
Although disability is frequently thought of as an immutable, health-based condition that limits functionality and prevents the performance of socially expected tasks (such as attending school or working), modern notions of the productive capacity of all people is at odds with this characterization.
Overlying it all is the irony at the core of so many apocalyptic fictions: that self-destruction is an immutable part of the human condition.
That not everyone is born into equal circumstances is something even the most idealistic of us has probably come to terms with as an immutable aspect of the human condition.
He came to regard the Malthusian principle of population not as an immutable law and a barrier to progress, but as showing the conditions under which progress can be achieved.
By the same token, without this latter presupposition, experiments would not make any sense at all, for, if the diversity of reactions occurring under different conditions is to reveal anything, these reactions must be the expression of an immutable nature.
There is an immutable justice.
"This is an immutable thing," he said.
The attempt to modify an immutable structure raised an exception.
