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The Trump-Vance Administration is trying to

Embolden discrimination and hate towards transgender people

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What we know

This order seeks to severely narrow government protections and support for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary individuals.

Formal Name

Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government

Status
Underway
Formal Identifier

January 20, 2025

Anticipated Impact

Relying on false claims that attempt to divide communities, this order claims to change the policy of the United States to recognize only two genders (male and female), and attempts to redefine those and other terms throughout federal law to comport with this harmful worldview. It also orders the Attorney General to issue guidance to circumvent Supreme Court case law that supports transgender protections and orders several agencies to investigate people deemed to have prevented others from expressing the administration's dangerous views. This order squarely targets transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people for discrimination.

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