Donald Trump will sign an executive order ordering his administration to “recognize” the existence of only “two sexes” without taking into account transgender people, and wants to eliminate federal aid for diversity in the government, future officials said Monday from the White House, shortly before the Republican’s inauguration.
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The decree aims to “defend women in the face of ideological gender extremism and to restore biological truth within the federal state,” an official told the press on condition of anonymity, specifying that the The sexual identity of individuals would now be defined at birth.
“What we are doing today is to affirm that the policy of the United States is to recognize two sexes: man and woman,” said this source.
“These are sexes which cannot be changed and which are based on a fundamental and incontestable reality,” added the same source. During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to put an end to the “transgender delusion.”
One of the concrete consequences of this policy will be to remove the gender “X”, neither masculine nor feminine, for people identifying as non-binary, “on official government documents, including passports and visas (which) will accurately reflect gender,” the official told the press. This possibility was opened during the mandate of Joe Biden.
-Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to order all federal agencies to stop supporting gender transition care. He also promised to “keep men away from women’s sports”, assigning any transgender person to their birth sex.
About half of American states, most often led by conservatives, already prohibit transgender students from competing in any category other than the gender they were assigned at birth.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, 26 American states also ban transition therapy for minors, a ban that Donald Trump has promised to extend to the rest of the United States, in particular by eliminating federal aid.
According to the University of California’s Williams Institute, about 1.6 million people over the age of 13, including 300,000 adolescents, identify as transgender in the United States, but that doesn’t mean they all have started transitional therapies.
The president-elect of the United States also wants to eliminate federal aid for programs supporting diversity in the administration, the same officials of his future team said on Monday.
“We are going to end this type of funding, we are going to end these programs,” said one of the sources, pointing to training on anti-racism and diversity.
