Fed Gov Affirms Male and Female Only: Gender Extremism Out
Published Date: 1/30/2025
Presidential Document
Summary
This new order says the government will only recognize two fixed sexes: male and female, based on biology. It aims to protect women’s safety and rights by stopping policies that let men identify as women to access women-only spaces. These changes start right away and could affect laws, government programs, and how federal agencies talk about sex and gender.
Analyzed Economic Effects
6 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 4 costs, 0 mixed.
Government IDs must reflect biological sex
The order requires that government-issued identification documents — including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards — accurately reflect the holder's sex as defined in section 2 (male or female). The Director of the Office of Personnel Management must also ensure Federal employee personnel records report sex under that definition.
Agencies must use 'sex' and remove 'gender identity'
All Federal agencies must interpret and use the terms 'sex', 'male', and 'female' as defined in section 2 and must use 'sex' (not 'gender') in statutes, regulations, guidance, documents, and communications. Agencies must remove statements, policies, regulations, forms, and communications that promote or inculcate 'gender ideology', and forms that require sex shall list only male or female and shall not request gender identity.
Federal grants cannot promote 'gender ideology'
The order directs agencies to take all necessary steps, as permitted by law, to end Federal funding of 'gender ideology' and to assess grant conditions and grantee preferences to ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.
Prison and detention policy changes for sex and care
The Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security must ensure males are not detained in women's prisons or housed in women's detention centers, and the Bureau of Prisons must revise medical-care policies so no Federal funds are expended for medical procedures, treatments, or drugs intended to make an inmate appear as the opposite sex.
HUD to rescind Equal Access rule; shelter protections
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development must prepare and submit for notice-and-comment rulemaking a policy to rescind the September 21, 2016 final rule 'Equal Access in Accordance with an Individual's Gender Identity in Community Planning and Development Programs' and shall submit for public comment a policy protecting women seeking single-sex rape shelters.
Workplace enforcement prioritizes binary sex protections
The Attorney General shall issue guidance to ensure the freedom to express the binary nature of sex and the right to single-sex spaces in workplaces and federally funded entities covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Attorney General, Secretary of Labor, EEOC leadership, and other enforcement officials will prioritize investigations and litigation to enforce those rights.
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