Donald Trump’s executive action gets to the heart of why it’s so important to uphold the rights of women, which are under threat when gender identity is allowed to supersede one’s biological sex.
On his first day in office, former President Joe Biden signed an executive order that set the tone for his administration’s aggressive push to prioritize gender identity over biological sex.
On President Donald Trump’s first day, he did the opposite.
When Trump signed his order, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government,” he signaled to the country that, as promised, he would stand up for fairness in women’s sports and privacy in women’s spaces – two things most at risk under the Democrats’ regime.
It seems almost silly that this needs to be clarified, but the order states that the federal government will recognize only the two sexes: male and female. And it seeks to “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.” Trump’s executive action gets to the heart of why this is so important for upholding women’s rights, which are under threat when gender identity is allowed to supersede one’s biological sex.
“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,” the order states.
Trump upholds fairness in sports for girls and women
Nowhere is this more obvious than when it comes to female athletics. Girls and young women who participate in high school and college sports should not have to face transgender athletes who have physical advantages they do not.
While professional and elite athletic organizations were tightening their rules around transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports, Biden wanted to throw the door wide open.
In addition to his executive order related to gender identity, Biden immediately went to work to give these guidelines the force of law through changing definitions in Title IX – the law banning sex discrimination in schools that receive federal money. The new rule changed the definition of “sex” to include “gender identity,” undermining the intent of the 1972 law.
