# 2025-02090: Fed Gov Affirms Male and Female Only: Gender Extremism Out 2025-02090, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-01-30, effective 2025-01-20 (as of 2026-11-03). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02090 - As of: 2026-11-03 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Document number: 2025-02090 - Title: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government - Type: Presidential Document - Agencies: Executive Office of the President - Citation: unknown - Published: 2025-01-30 - Effective: 2025-01-20 - Comments close: not stated - Significant: no - Touches household money: no - Regulation identifier numbers: none - Last updated: 2026-11-03 ## In one line Fed Gov Affirms Male and Female Only: Gender Extremism Out ## 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. ## Effects PRIA read - Government IDs must reflect biological sex: cost, medium. 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 reco… - Agencies must use 'sex' and remove 'gender identity': cost, medium. 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 promo… - Federal grants cannot promote 'gender ideology': cost, medium. 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: cost, medium. 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… - HUD to rescind Equal Access rule; shelter protections: benefit, medium. 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… - Workplace enforcement prioritizes binary sex protections: benefit, medium. 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. 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