Trump Signs Four Executive Orders in Campaign To Eliminate ‘Gender Ideology’ and Protect Women’s Rights
‘It’s a women’s rights issue,’ a senior legal adviser for Independent Women’s Law Center says.
Through a series of executive orders signed in his first two weeks in office, President Trump is moving to eliminate the concept of “gender identity” — that a person can identify as something other than their biological sex — from the federal government, the military, public schools, and other federally funded institutions.
Transgender rights activists are vowing to fight this and have already filed lawsuits to preserve transgender protections for military service members and prisoners. Yet Mr. Trump’s orders should come as no surprise. Mr. Trump vowed on the campaign trail to end “leftwing gender insanity” and the “mutilation” of children through prescribing of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries.
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