Trump Eradicates Gender Ideology on Week One

By | January 24, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24 (C-Fam) President Trump has issued executive orders eradicating gender ideology and DEI initiatives from across the federal government.

Trump’s executive order on “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremisms and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” was one of the first signed on Monday. The order calls on all federal agencies to stop using the term “gender” altogether and only to use the term “sex.” The roll back isn’t limited to rescinding any single federal agency or program. It is comprehensive.

“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,” reads the executive order. The order defines sex as part of the biological identity of individuals from the moment of conception.

The executive order bans all federal agencies from funding, supporting or promoting gender ideology, calling it “corrosive” and an “attack on women.” Agencies are required to take down any policies, regulations, statements, public forms, or publications promoting gender ideology and to ensure they comply with the executive order, including for purposes of government-issued identity documents. The order also requires federal agencies to protect female-only spaces from men who self-identify as women and to report compliance within 120 days of the order being issued.

Trump’s executive orders are expected to have implications not just for domestic U.S. policy, but also foreign policy. In addition to the executive order specific to gender ideology, Trump rescinded the executive orders issued by Biden to promote the homosexual/transgender agenda in U.S. foreign policy.

In a press statement on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the State Department would “return to the basics of diplomacy by eliminating our focus on political and cultural causes that are divisive at home and deeply unpopular abroad” and called for a “pragmatic foreign policy in cooperation with other nations to advance our core national interests.”

Trump’s executive actions against gender ideology will be bolstered by his executive order requiring the federal government to end all federal efforts to censor free speech and ordering federal agencies to encourage private media platforms to uphold free speech. Free speech has become an increasing concern for pro-lifers as media platforms increasingly censor pro-life and pro-family messages as “misinformation” and “hate speech.”

Also of note, Trump’s executive order on artificial intelligence, issued later in the week, expressly requires the federal government to “develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas.”

The President also ordered the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization, which aggressively promotes abortion around the world. He also signed pardons for twenty-three pro-life activists and expressed support for a Congressional bill requiring medical care for children born-alive after attempted abortions.

As of the time of publication, there were no official reports from the administration about reinstating a federal ban on U.S. funding for groups that provide or promote abortions abroad, known as the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance or withholding U.S. funds from the UN Population Fund. Both measures have been put in place by every Republican administration since Ronald Reagan, including in an expanded format during Trump’s first term in office.

 

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