Leroy N. Soetoro
2025-01-22 23:43:32 UTC
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-
from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-
federal-government/
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5,
United States Code, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. Across the country, ideologues who deny the
biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially
coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to
intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from womens
domestic abuse shelters to womens workplace showers. This is wrong.
Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack
women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The
erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on
women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal
policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale,
and trust in government itself.
This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against
the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and
scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with
an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological
facts. Invalidating the true and biological category of woman
improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based
opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing
longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based,
inchoate social concept.
Accordingly, my Administration will defend womens rights and protect
freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies
that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically
male.
Sec. 2. Policy and Definitions. It is the policy of the United States to
recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and
are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality. Under my
direction, the Executive Branch will enforce all sex-protective laws to
promote this reality, and the following definitions shall govern all
Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and
administration policy:
(a) Sex shall refer to an individuals immutable biological
classification as either male or female. Sex is not a synonym for and
does not include the concept of gender identity.
(b) Women or woman and girls or girl shall mean adult and
juvenile human females, respectively.
(c) Men or man and boys or boy shall mean adult and juvenile
human males, respectively.
(d) Female means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that
produces the large reproductive cell.
(e) Male means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that
produces the small reproductive cell.
(f) Gender ideology replaces the biological category of sex with an
ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity, permitting the
false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice
versa, and requiring all institutions of society to regard this false
claim as true. Gender ideology includes the idea that there is a vast
spectrum of genders that are disconnected from ones sex. Gender ideology
is internally inconsistent, in that it diminishes sex as an identifiable
or useful category but nevertheless maintains that it is possible for a
person to be born in the wrong sexed body.
(g) Gender identity reflects a fully internal and subjective sense of
self, disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an
infinite continuum, that does not provide a meaningful basis for
identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex.
Sec. 3. Recognizing Women Are Biologically Distinct From Men. (a)
Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall provide to the U.S. Government, external partners,
and the public clear guidance expanding on the sex-based definitions set
forth in this order.
(b) Each agency and all Federal employees shall enforce laws governing
sex-based rights, protections, opportunities, and accommodations to
protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes. Each agency should
therefore give the terms sex, male, female, men, women, boys
and girls the meanings set forth in section 2 of this order when
interpreting or applying statutes, regulations, or guidance and in all
other official agency business, documents, and communications.
(c) When administering or enforcing sex-based distinctions, every agency
and all Federal employees acting in an official capacity on behalf of
their agency shall use the term sex and not gender in all applicable
Federal policies and documents.
(d) The Secretaries of State and Homeland Security, and the Director of
the Office of Personnel Management, shall implement changes to require
that government-issued identification documents, including passports,
visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holders sex, as
defined under section 2 of this order; and the Director of the Office of
Personnel Management shall ensure that applicable personnel records
accurately report Federal employees sex, as defined by section 2 of this
order.
(e) Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms,
communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or
otherwise inculcate gender ideology, and shall cease issuing such
statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications or other
messages. Agency forms that require an individuals sex shall list male
or female, and shall not request gender identity. Agencies shall take all
necessary steps, as permitted by law, to end the Federal funding of gender
ideology.
(f) The prior Administration argued that the Supreme Courts decision in
Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), which addressed Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, requires gender identity-based access to single-sex
spaces under, for example, Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act.
This position is legally untenable and has harmed women. The Attorney
General shall therefore immediately issue guidance to agencies to correct
the misapplication of the Supreme Courts decision in Bostock v. Clayton
County (2020) to sex-based distinctions in agency activities. In
addition, the Attorney General shall issue guidance and assist agencies in
protecting sex-based distinctions, which are explicitly permitted under
Constitutional and statutory precedent.
(g) Federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology. Each
agency shall assess grant conditions and grantee preferences and ensure
grant funds do not promote gender ideology.
Sec. 4. Privacy in Intimate Spaces. (a) The Attorney General and
Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that males are not detained in
womens prisons or housed in womens detention centers, including through
amendment, as necessary, of Part 115.41 of title 28, Code of Federal
Regulations and interpretation guidance regarding the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
(b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall prepare and
submit for notice and comment rulemaking a policy to rescind the final
rule entitled Equal Access in Accordance with an Individuals Gender
Identity in Community Planning and Development Programs of September 21,
2016, 81 FR 64763, and shall submit for public comment a policy protecting
women seeking single-sex rape shelters.
(c) The Attorney General shall ensure that the Bureau of Prisons revises
its policies concerning medical care to be consistent with this order, and
shall ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure,
treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmates appearance to
that of the opposite sex.
(d) Agencies shall effectuate this policy by taking appropriate action to
ensure that intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females (or
for men, boys, or males) are designated by sex and not identity.
Sec. 5. Protecting Rights. 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. In accordance with that guidance, the
Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor, the General Counsel and Chair of
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and each other agency head
with enforcement responsibilities under the Civil Rights Act shall
prioritize investigations and litigation to enforce the rights and
freedoms identified.
Sec. 6. Bill Text. Within 30 days of the date of this order, the
Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs shall present to the
President proposed bill text to codify the definitions in this order.
Sec. 7. Agency Implementation and Reporting. (a) Within 120 days of the
date of this order, each agency head shall submit an update on
implementation of this order to the President, through the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget. That update shall address:
(i) changes to agency documents, including regulations, guidance, forms,
and communications, made to comply with this order; and
(ii) agency-imposed requirements on federally funded entities, including
contractors, to achieve the policy of this order.
(b) The requirements of this order supersede conflicting provisions in
any previous Executive Orders or Presidential Memoranda, including but not
limited to Executive Orders 13988 of January 20, 2021, 14004 of January
25, 2021, 14020 and 14021 of March 8, 2021, and 14075 of June 15, 2022.
These Executive Orders are hereby rescinded, and the White House Gender
Policy Council established by Executive Order 14020 is dissolved.
(c) Each agency head shall promptly rescind all guidance documents
inconsistent with the requirements of this order or the Attorney Generals
guidance issued pursuant to this order, or rescind such parts of such
documents that are inconsistent in such manner. Such documents include,
but are not limited to:
(i) The White House Toolkit on Transgender Equality;
(ii) the Department of Educations guidance documents including:
(A) 2024 Title IX Regulations: Pointers for Implementation (July 2024);
(B) U.S. Department of Education Toolkit: Creating Inclusive and
Nondiscriminatory School Environments for LGBTQI+ Students;
(C) U.S. Department of Education Supporting LGBTQI+ Youth and Families
in School (June 21, 2023);
(D) Departamento de Educación de EE.UU. Apoyar a los jóvenes y familias
LGBTQI+ en la escuela (June 21, 2023);
(E) Supporting Intersex Students: A Resource for Students, Families, and
Educators (October 2021);
(F) Supporting Transgender Youth in School (June 2021);
(G) Letter to Educators on Title IXs 49th Anniversary (June 23, 2021);
(H) Confronting Anti-LGBTQI+ Harassment in Schools: A Resource for
Students and Families (June 2021);
(I) Enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 With
Respect to Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
in Light of Bostock v. Clayton County (June 22, 2021);
(J) Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on
Americas Students (June 9, 2021); and
(K) Back-to-School Message for Transgender Students from the U.S. Depts
of Justice, Education, and HHS (Aug. 17, 2021);
(iii) the Attorney Generals Memorandum of March 26, 2021 entitled
Application of Bostock v. Clayton County to Title IX of the Education
Amendments of 1972"; and
(iv) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions Enforcement Guidance
on Harassment in the Workplace (April 29, 2024).
Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be
construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency,
or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and
subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any
party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities,
its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(d) If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision
to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of
this order and the application of its provisions to any other persons or
circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 20, 2025.
--
November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.
The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and
eradicated.
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-
federal-government/
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5,
United States Code, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. Across the country, ideologues who deny the
biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially
coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to
intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from womens
domestic abuse shelters to womens workplace showers. This is wrong.
Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack
women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The
erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on
women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal
policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale,
and trust in government itself.
This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against
the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and
scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with
an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological
facts. Invalidating the true and biological category of woman
improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based
opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing
longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based,
inchoate social concept.
Accordingly, my Administration will defend womens rights and protect
freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies
that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically
male.
Sec. 2. Policy and Definitions. It is the policy of the United States to
recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and
are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality. Under my
direction, the Executive Branch will enforce all sex-protective laws to
promote this reality, and the following definitions shall govern all
Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and
administration policy:
(a) Sex shall refer to an individuals immutable biological
classification as either male or female. Sex is not a synonym for and
does not include the concept of gender identity.
(b) Women or woman and girls or girl shall mean adult and
juvenile human females, respectively.
(c) Men or man and boys or boy shall mean adult and juvenile
human males, respectively.
(d) Female means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that
produces the large reproductive cell.
(e) Male means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that
produces the small reproductive cell.
(f) Gender ideology replaces the biological category of sex with an
ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity, permitting the
false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice
versa, and requiring all institutions of society to regard this false
claim as true. Gender ideology includes the idea that there is a vast
spectrum of genders that are disconnected from ones sex. Gender ideology
is internally inconsistent, in that it diminishes sex as an identifiable
or useful category but nevertheless maintains that it is possible for a
person to be born in the wrong sexed body.
(g) Gender identity reflects a fully internal and subjective sense of
self, disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an
infinite continuum, that does not provide a meaningful basis for
identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex.
Sec. 3. Recognizing Women Are Biologically Distinct From Men. (a)
Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall provide to the U.S. Government, external partners,
and the public clear guidance expanding on the sex-based definitions set
forth in this order.
(b) Each agency and all Federal employees shall enforce laws governing
sex-based rights, protections, opportunities, and accommodations to
protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes. Each agency should
therefore give the terms sex, male, female, men, women, boys
and girls the meanings set forth in section 2 of this order when
interpreting or applying statutes, regulations, or guidance and in all
other official agency business, documents, and communications.
(c) When administering or enforcing sex-based distinctions, every agency
and all Federal employees acting in an official capacity on behalf of
their agency shall use the term sex and not gender in all applicable
Federal policies and documents.
(d) The Secretaries of State and Homeland Security, and the Director of
the Office of Personnel Management, shall implement changes to require
that government-issued identification documents, including passports,
visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holders sex, as
defined under section 2 of this order; and the Director of the Office of
Personnel Management shall ensure that applicable personnel records
accurately report Federal employees sex, as defined by section 2 of this
order.
(e) Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms,
communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or
otherwise inculcate gender ideology, and shall cease issuing such
statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications or other
messages. Agency forms that require an individuals sex shall list male
or female, and shall not request gender identity. Agencies shall take all
necessary steps, as permitted by law, to end the Federal funding of gender
ideology.
(f) The prior Administration argued that the Supreme Courts decision in
Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), which addressed Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, requires gender identity-based access to single-sex
spaces under, for example, Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act.
This position is legally untenable and has harmed women. The Attorney
General shall therefore immediately issue guidance to agencies to correct
the misapplication of the Supreme Courts decision in Bostock v. Clayton
County (2020) to sex-based distinctions in agency activities. In
addition, the Attorney General shall issue guidance and assist agencies in
protecting sex-based distinctions, which are explicitly permitted under
Constitutional and statutory precedent.
(g) Federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology. Each
agency shall assess grant conditions and grantee preferences and ensure
grant funds do not promote gender ideology.
Sec. 4. Privacy in Intimate Spaces. (a) The Attorney General and
Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that males are not detained in
womens prisons or housed in womens detention centers, including through
amendment, as necessary, of Part 115.41 of title 28, Code of Federal
Regulations and interpretation guidance regarding the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
(b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall prepare and
submit for notice and comment rulemaking a policy to rescind the final
rule entitled Equal Access in Accordance with an Individuals Gender
Identity in Community Planning and Development Programs of September 21,
2016, 81 FR 64763, and shall submit for public comment a policy protecting
women seeking single-sex rape shelters.
(c) The Attorney General shall ensure that the Bureau of Prisons revises
its policies concerning medical care to be consistent with this order, and
shall ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure,
treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmates appearance to
that of the opposite sex.
(d) Agencies shall effectuate this policy by taking appropriate action to
ensure that intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females (or
for men, boys, or males) are designated by sex and not identity.
Sec. 5. Protecting Rights. 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. In accordance with that guidance, the
Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor, the General Counsel and Chair of
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and each other agency head
with enforcement responsibilities under the Civil Rights Act shall
prioritize investigations and litigation to enforce the rights and
freedoms identified.
Sec. 6. Bill Text. Within 30 days of the date of this order, the
Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs shall present to the
President proposed bill text to codify the definitions in this order.
Sec. 7. Agency Implementation and Reporting. (a) Within 120 days of the
date of this order, each agency head shall submit an update on
implementation of this order to the President, through the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget. That update shall address:
(i) changes to agency documents, including regulations, guidance, forms,
and communications, made to comply with this order; and
(ii) agency-imposed requirements on federally funded entities, including
contractors, to achieve the policy of this order.
(b) The requirements of this order supersede conflicting provisions in
any previous Executive Orders or Presidential Memoranda, including but not
limited to Executive Orders 13988 of January 20, 2021, 14004 of January
25, 2021, 14020 and 14021 of March 8, 2021, and 14075 of June 15, 2022.
These Executive Orders are hereby rescinded, and the White House Gender
Policy Council established by Executive Order 14020 is dissolved.
(c) Each agency head shall promptly rescind all guidance documents
inconsistent with the requirements of this order or the Attorney Generals
guidance issued pursuant to this order, or rescind such parts of such
documents that are inconsistent in such manner. Such documents include,
but are not limited to:
(i) The White House Toolkit on Transgender Equality;
(ii) the Department of Educations guidance documents including:
(A) 2024 Title IX Regulations: Pointers for Implementation (July 2024);
(B) U.S. Department of Education Toolkit: Creating Inclusive and
Nondiscriminatory School Environments for LGBTQI+ Students;
(C) U.S. Department of Education Supporting LGBTQI+ Youth and Families
in School (June 21, 2023);
(D) Departamento de Educación de EE.UU. Apoyar a los jóvenes y familias
LGBTQI+ en la escuela (June 21, 2023);
(E) Supporting Intersex Students: A Resource for Students, Families, and
Educators (October 2021);
(F) Supporting Transgender Youth in School (June 2021);
(G) Letter to Educators on Title IXs 49th Anniversary (June 23, 2021);
(H) Confronting Anti-LGBTQI+ Harassment in Schools: A Resource for
Students and Families (June 2021);
(I) Enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 With
Respect to Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
in Light of Bostock v. Clayton County (June 22, 2021);
(J) Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on
Americas Students (June 9, 2021); and
(K) Back-to-School Message for Transgender Students from the U.S. Depts
of Justice, Education, and HHS (Aug. 17, 2021);
(iii) the Attorney Generals Memorandum of March 26, 2021 entitled
Application of Bostock v. Clayton County to Title IX of the Education
Amendments of 1972"; and
(iv) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions Enforcement Guidance
on Harassment in the Workplace (April 29, 2024).
Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be
construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency,
or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and
subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any
party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities,
its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(d) If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision
to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of
this order and the application of its provisions to any other persons or
circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 20, 2025.
--
November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.
The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and
eradicated.
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.