Trump issues order recognizing only two sexes that are 'not changeable'

Los Angeles Times ^ | Jan. 21, 2025 3 AM PT | Emily Alpert Reyes

[E. Pluribus Unum]

• Trump signed executive orders Monday declaring that the U.S. government recognizes only two sexes that are “not changeable.”

• Trump also rescinded three orders on LGBTQ+ rights issued under the Biden administration, including one directing federal agencies to review rules to prevent discrimination based on gender identity.

President Trump signed executive orders Monday asserting that the U.S. government recognizes only two sexes that are “not changeable,” and reversing Biden administration directives on LGBTQ+ rights.

One of the new orders says that “male” and “female” are defined based on reproductive cells and at the point when a person is conceived, and states that government-issued identification such as passports and visas must reflect that definition. In recent years, the U.S. had begun allowing people to select a third option, X, on passports to indicate an unspecified or other gender identity.

Trump’s directive also calls for federal agencies to eliminate any statements or policies “that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology,” which it defines as “an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity, permitting the false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice versa.”

Federal agencies will enforce “laws governing sex-based rights, protections, opportunities, and accommodations to protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes,” the order states, saying such measures were needed to prevent men from gaining access to “intimate single-sex spaces” for women.

It also directs federal officials to ensure that people it defines as men are not housed in women’s prisons or detention centers. In addition, the executive order calls for the attorney general to block the use of federal funding for medical treatment or procedures for gender transition for prisoners.

Kellan Baker, executive director of the Institute for Health Research & Policy at Whitman-Walker, an organization focused on LGBTQ+ health equity, noted that the…

[Fido969]

I think this is a little too strict for reality. If someone changes physically, then they might change sex. But the demanding not to be misgendered or pretending to be a woman with a d*ck should be condemned.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This better get backed up with Congressional legislation or else it WILL be changeable when the next Dem gets in and reverses the executive order. While I appreciate Trump doing this to reverse the horrible Biden policy, it highlights the dangers of governance by executive order. What Biden does, Trump reverses and what Trump does, the next Dem can reverse.

[goo goo g'joob]

Justice Brown, answer the white courtesy phone. Justice Brown, to the white courtesy phone. Thank You

[Uncle Miltie]

What part is too strict in your scale-of-grey world?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If someone changes physically, then they might change sex.

Chromosomes determine sex.

Chromosomally there are two sexes, "male" and "female."

Anything else is "mutant."

Chopping off sex organs or grafting fake sex organs does not change chromosomes.

[FamiliarFace]

*** If someone changes physically, then they might change sex. ***

You can’t change your DNA. You can cut yourself up, or put makeup and different clothes on, but you’ll still be the sex you were born with.

[ConjunctionJunction]

No. They can change their appearance, but they can’t change their biological sex.

[MtnClimber]

There is only one speed to complete the Freepathon

But there are still two genders

Donate to FR before the Deadline

[A Navy Vet]

Sanity at last!!!

[Jaysin]

Why does it have to be a WHITE courtesy phone?

[Ueriah]

Or just call them crossdressers and let them do their thing so long as they aren’t hurting anyone else.

[alexander_busek]

If someone changes physically, then they might change sex.

If a person with XY chromosomes (i.e., a MAN) somehow manages to change them to XX chromosomes (= female), then I would be willing to acknowledge that they have succeeded in changing sex.

Not otherwise.

Regards,

[sjmjax]

“…follow the science…”

Yes until the technology emerges to change the DNA in every cell in your body, “sex change” is nothing more than a costume. Surgery no more changes your sex than putting on a rubber mask makes you an alien.

That’s fine if you really want to play pretend. But, don’t expect to be taken seriously by anyone other than the lunatic left.