By CatholicVote | Created at 2025-01-20 16:50:57 | Updated at 2025-01-20 20:55:53
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CV NEWS FEED // In a recent Free Press article, senior administration officials explained the significance of President Donald Trump’s executive order curtailing the effects of gender ideology on American institutions.
The order reads: “Men and women are equal but have obvious sexual differences. If federal policies promote such an obvious falsehood that men can become women, the government will forfeit all credibility. The government must maintain a commitment to recognizing biological reality to maintain the trust of the American people.”
The order outlines three major changes. First, it “establishes Government-wide the biological reality of two sexes.” As a result, government agencies must recognize and protect females from sex discrimination, and passports will only list male and female as options for sex. Citizens must fill out the passport according to their biological reality, “not self-assessed gender identity.”
Second, the order forbids prisons from housing men in women’s prisons and prohibits prisoners from undergoing “transitions” covered by taxpayer dollars.
Finally, the executive order “ends the forced recitation of ‘preferred pronouns’ and protects Americans’ First Amendment and statutory rights to recognize the biological and binary nature of sex.”
“This really was a defining issue of the campaign,” an unnamed senior official told the Free Press. “The president is going to be fulfilling the promises he made on the trail.”
The official also explained why the order specified protections for women.
“Women deserve protections, they deserve dignity, they deserve fairness, they deserve safety,” the official said. “And so this is going to help establish that in federal policy and in federal laws.”
The Free Press reported that the executive order does not address gender mutilation surgeries performed on minors. Noting it was one of Trump’s campaign promises, the outlet asked the senior official why a ban on such procedures is not included in the executive order.
“This executive order is the first of many,” the official responded. “I would expect that anything the president said he would do on the trail regarding these issues, he’s going to be fulfilling those promises.”
