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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’
Donald Trump speaks at a MAGA victory rally in Washington, D.C., on January 19, 2025. (Jim Watson via Getty Images)
The White House strikes out at gender ideology and pronouns. Also: ends housing of biological men in women’s prisons; self-ID on passports; and more.
By Emily Yoffe
01.20.25 — The Big Read
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Toward the end of the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s campaign released an unexpected ad, and one that was extremely politically effective. The tagline—“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”—could go down in history as one of the most effective campaign slogans ever devised.

The ad reinforced a promise Trump repeated at rally after rally as he toured the swing states: If returned to office, he would immediately take on the gender ideology the Biden administration had embraced. Namely, he would end policies such as allowing males on women’s sports teams and in women’s locker rooms, and the housing of male prisoners who identify as transwomen in federal prisons for female offenders.

President Trump has addressed all this and more in an expansive executive order he will sign tomorrow afternoon called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

Here is what the order sets out:

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Emily Yoffe
Senior editor Emily Yoffe is a veteran journalist who has published widely on numerous topics. She was a contributing writer to The Atlantic where she wrote about campus sexual assault and MeToo and the need for due process for the accused. She was a longtime contributor to Slate, where she was their "Dear Prudence" columnist for 10 years.
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