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(NewsNation) — President Trump signed executive orders Monday recognizes only two gendersman and woman.
The Gender Identity Executive Order would limit the choice of gender identification to gender assigned at birth and direct federal agencies to stop promoting the concept of gender transition.
“I will end the government’s policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender in every aspect of public and private life,” Trump said Monday in his inaugural address. “We will create a society that is color blind and merit based. From today onwards, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.”
The executive order aims to prevent transgender and gender non-conforming Americans from self-selecting their gender on official government documents such as visas and passports, an option first made available by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2021. The Department in 2022 issued the first US passport with an “unspecified” gender marker, indicated by a single letter X, NewsNation affiliate “The Hill” reported.
Trump’s executive order also directs the attorney general to provide guidance on how the Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects workers from discrimination based on their gender identity or sexuality, can be applied to other federal statutes.
Monday’s executive order is likely to face legal challenges in the coming months and years.
The ACLU haspromisedto take the administration to court “where we can.” Chase Strangio, an ACLU attorney who last month became the first transgender person to argue before the Supreme Court, wrotein an Instagram postthat Trump’s orders “do not and cannot change the law.”
Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, said Monday’s orders “serve no other purpose than to harm our families and our communities” and stressed they would not take effect immediately, reported ” The Hill”.
Janson Wu, senior director of attorneys general and government affairs at the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ youth suicide prevention organization, said Trump’s orders “will cause harm,” especially to young people.
“We know that many people feel scared or even confused about what certain actions today and in the coming days mean for our society,” Wu said. “I want to remind everyone that we are prepared for whatever lies ahead – and will continue to protect and look after each other now, just as we always have.”
NewsNation affiliate “The Hill” contributed to this report.
