Federal Register, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, Executive Order 14168, January 20, 2025
Directs all federal entities to distinguish between identities on the basis of two distinct sexes, rather than gender, with regard to the management of personnel, sex-specific accommodations, and protections for women. Also seeks to ensure federal funds are not being used to address matters related to "gender ideology" and requires updates from agencies and federally-funded contractors on the status of policy implementation.
From the Order:
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 women's domestic abuse shelters to women's 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 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.
Read Executive Order 14168.