We've come a long way from when Joe Biden urged all American parents to "affirm your kids," Congress wiped out the word "mother," trans influencers bared their breasts on the White House lawn, and two men in women's clothes headed up the the roundtable on Lesbian Day of Visibility. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on "Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government." In so doing, he rolled back the excessive gender orders implemented by the Biden administration, orders which forced gender ideology into every crevice of federal government from college athletics, to free school lunches, to federal prisons, workplace bathrooms, and beyond. Women can finally be women again.
"This is wrong," Trump's order said simply as it went on to describe the horrors perpetrated on American women in service to the lie that human beings are sexually dimorphous and can change their God-given sex through drugs, surgeries, and some really hard wishing. "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," the order said.
And just like that: the law of the land no longer requires schools and colleges to allow men to play on women's sports teams, use women's locker rooms and bathrooms, or extend the protections allocated in the Civil Rights Act for women to men who claim they are women and freak out when anyone does this crazy thing of actually pointing out basic reality. For sure, many schools and institutions still have these policies in place and they may be forced into court by women who have had enough of male infiltration of their spaces, language, and rights. In so doing, those institutions may try to lean on the protections offered by the Supreme Court in the Bostock decision, but that decision, widely interpreted by the Biden administration across all federal agencies to mean that men can be women and that sex is interchangeable with gender, doesn't say what people think it says.
In Bostock, the Supreme Court mistook sex-based differentiations for discrimination, opening the door for years of policies and regulations that legally obliterate the distinctions between men and women. However, in the opinion of the court, issued in June 2020, Justice Neil Gorsuch unequivocally stated that the ruling that an employer cannot tell a man he cannot dress like a woman at work because that constitutes sex-based discrimination was not about bathrooms. He said that concerns about use of bathrooms was not a question before the court. "The only question before us is whether an employer who fires someone simply for being homosexual or transgender has discharged or otherwise discriminated against that individual 'because of such individual’s sex.'" Justice Samuel Alito dissented to Gorsuch's opinion that the ruling was narrow, saying "The Court’s brusque refusal to consider the consequences of its reasoning is irresponsible." And it was. That ruling was the basis for Biden's gender orders back in 2021 when he instructed every federal agency to, within 180 days, have plans in place to be more inclusive to alternate gender identities like trans, non-binary, and an assortment of other made-up genders.
With a stroke of his pen, Trump wiped it all out. The years of damage have been done, but reversing course on gender identity and the damage caused to women and girls by gender ideology begins now. The order reads: "my Administration will defend women’s 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." As for Bostock, the order reads: "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 Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) to sex-based distinctions in agency activities."
And he reverted the language used in government back to original meanings, not the woke interpretations. "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," he said. This reversal, this complete about-face from Biden's bastardized, biologically irresponsible policies are an astounding first step to restoring the rights of women and girls across the US. No longer will people be able to lie on their passports or official documents, no longer will men be able to usurp womanhood legally.
While none of this is necessarily binding past the four years of Trump's term and could be reversed by the next president, it gives American women's rights campaigners four years to push gender ideology out of schools and out of practice. It will be harder for schools, institutions and corporations to adhere to gender ideology in language and practice when it is no longer backed by the full force of federal agencies and the White House. This is a White House that knows the harm of gender ideology.
While Trump has been defamed and derided by woke leftists who call themselves feminists, women who actually seek equality for women under the law—and who knew we used to have it—spoke out in favor of the man we are expected to believe hates women.
"A noisy part of the left still refuses to step outside their sex-is-a-social-construct bubble and acknowledge that their embrace of gender identity ideology has been a calamity. They were warned the right was capitalising on their betrayal of women and girls. They didn't listen," JK Rowling said. She's been fighting against gender ideology on a global scale.
Maya Forstater, who lost her position over her assertion that biological reality is innate, backed the executive order as well, saying "There is so much sense in this. There has been an 'ongoing & purposeful attack against the ordinary & longstanding use & understanding of biological & scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, & subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts.'"
"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," the order specifies.
Each of these orders was harmful to women and girls and implemented a belief system that is anathema to natural law, biological reality, and common sense. With these reversals, those working in policy and law will have standing to fight back against trans sanctuary states, schools, and institutions that are intent on destroying the rights of women and girls in service to the men who want to erase them.
