Trump executive order says federal government only recognizes "two sexes"

Source: cbs





By Kathryn Watson, Caroline Linton January 21, 2025 / 6:34 PM EST

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order declaring that it's policy of the federal government to only recognize "two sexes, male and female," reversing the ability of Americans to mark "other" or "X" on federal forms and causing sweeping implications in the way the federal government acknowledges gender.

Mr. Trump has long pledged to alter the way the federal government handles the issue of gender identification, and on the campaign trail, his lines about preventing transgender athletes from participating in women's sports prompted some of the loudest reactions from his rally-goers.

LGBTQ rights groups are pledging to challenge Trump's order where they can.

"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," Mr. Trump's executive order reads. "This is wrong."
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