President Donald Trump is set to sign more than 200 executive orders today, amongst them one which says it establishes “Government-wide the biological reality of two sexes and clearly defines male and female”.
An Executive Order is a directive by the president of the United States in relation to the enforcement of the law or the management of the federal government, and are sometimes used to shape policy. The orders are subject to judicial review.
Called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”, the order set to be signed by Trump sets out that:
The Executive Order establishes Government-wide the biological reality of two sexes and clearly defines male and female.
All radical gender ideology guidance, communication, policies, and forms are removed.
Agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination.
“Woman” means an “adult human female.”
The Executive Order directs that Government identification like passports and personnel records will reflect biological reality and not self-assessed gender identity.
The Executive Order ends the practice of housing men in women’s prisons and taxpayer funded “transition” for male prisoners.
The Executive Order ends the forced recitation of “preferred pronouns” and protects Americans’ First Amendment and statutory rights to recognize the biological and binary nature of sex.
This includes protection in the workplace and in federal funded entities like schools.
The order ends with a statement which says that: “Men and women are equal but have obvious sexual differences”, adding “If federal policies promote such an obvious falsehood that men can become women, the government will forfeit all credibility. The government must maintain a commitment to recognizing biological reality to maintain the trust of the American people.”
Irish campaign group The Countess said the order signalled “a tremendous return to objective reality from the chaos of subjective “feeling”.
On X, the Natural Women’s Council described the incoming order as “A good day for America”, adding that “Men can fantasise about whatever they want – but it won’t be enshrined into law”.
The Free Press reported that an incoming senior administration official said that the issue was “a defining issue of the campaign” for Presidency of the US, and that “The president is going to be fulfilling the promises he made on the trail.”
The media outlet noted that:
It is becoming something of a presidential tradition to begin a term with sweeping directives regarding “gender identity.” President Biden, on his first day in office, demanded the federal government “review all existing orders, regulations, guidance documents, policies, programs, or other agency actions” that could impinge on transgender rights. Language and rules about transgender identities became embedded in the vast federal bureaucracy.
Now, Trump has ordered a reversal of all this. In an exclusive briefing with The Free Press, two senior officials provided a summary of the executive order. “Women deserve protections, they deserve dignity, they deserve fairness, they deserve safety,” said a senior policy adviser explaining why the order explicitly embraces the necessity of special treatment for women. “And so this is going to help establish that in federal policy and in federal laws.”
It is thought that the section of the order which asserts that “All radical gender ideology guidance, communication, policies, and forms are removed” may be subject to legal challenge since U.S. passports have allowed citizens to choose “X” as their gender since 2022.
More than 200 executive actions will be rolled out by the White House today, including one that ends all Diversity, Equality and Inclusion programs across federal government and an order to declare a national emergency at the border.