On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that notably rolls back many policies supporting transgender rights from the previous administration. The order mandates recognition solely of biological sex assigned at birth and prohibits the use of 'gender' in federal documents. It removes nonbinary options from identification and restricts trans women from accessing women-specific spaces such as prisons and domestic violence shelters. This move illustrates a major shift in U.S. policy toward a more conservative stance on gender identity.
The order rolls back more than a dozen Biden-era policies that support trans people and will require federal agencies to eliminate any acknowledgment of transgender individuals.
This is a significant pivot in federal policy that not only restricts rights for transgender individuals but also enforces a binary understanding of sex at a national level.
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