In their place, Mr Trump issued an order titled “defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government,” which stated that “sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality”.
The order instructs all government agencies to ensure that official documents including passports and visas “accurately reflect the holder’s sex”, as well as protect single-sex spaces in federal prisons, migrant shelters, rape shelters and other “intimate spaces”.
As of 2022, US citizens have been able to select “X” as their gender marker on passports.
The order also dictates that federal funds can no longer be used to promote “gender ideology,” a loose term often used to reference the promotion of non-traditional views on sex and gender.
Explaining the rationale behind the rollback, the order states “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being”.
The order said there was “an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts”.
