Gender is not an ideology - but conservative groups know learning about it empowers people

"On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring there are two sexes determined solely by the kind of reproductive cells the body makes, and that the federal government would recognize nothing else. The order claims to protect the "freedom to express the binary nature of sex" and bans the use of federal funds to "promote gender ideology." Legal experts have criticized the directive as unconstitutional and are challenging it in the courts."

"In 2004, pushing back on the global women's and gay rights movements, the Vatican declared in a letter to bishops that men and women are different by nature "not only on the physical level, but also on the psychological and spiritual." The letter stated that the idea of gender "inspired ideologies" that sanction alternatives to the traditional two-parent family headed by men and treated homosexuality on par with heterosexuality."

A presidential executive order defined sex as strictly binary based on the type of reproductive cells a body produces and asserted federal recognition of no other categories. The order pledged to protect the "freedom to express the binary nature of sex" and barred federal funding to "promote gender ideology," prompting constitutional criticism and legal challenges. Conservatives and right-wing activists have used the order to intensify efforts to remove gender-related content from schools and universities, achieving successes in several states. The term "gender ideology" originated among conservative Catholics in the 1990s and was amplified by a 2004 Vatican letter opposing gender concepts and LGBTQ+ equality.

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