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Matt Osborne
Jan 22, 2025
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Germany to lobby Trump on WHO withdrawal | FMT

Did we win yet?

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump issued a very strong executive order that removes ‘gender identity’ ideology from federal agencies and policies, root and branch.

“As of today,” Trump announced, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.” He simultaneously rescinded several Biden executive orders. (You can read a full synopsis here.)

To condense: in the executive order, the word “woman” is defined as “adult human female.” No one is ‘nonbinary’ anymore. The federal government will understand every American as male or female according to their birth sex rather than some nebulous self-defined ‘gender identity.’ There will be no more ‘X’ option on passports, and there will no longer be “preferred pronouns” in federal workforces.

Presidents do not write executive orders (EOs) themselves. The text of “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological T…

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