https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... er-people/Upon assuming the presidency Monday, Donald Trump is expected to immediately move to end the federal government’s recognition of transgender people, who have existed in hundreds of societies worldwide since ancient times.
In an executive order titled, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” the full text of which has not been released, Trump will reportedly mandate that the federal government acknowledge only “biological sex”—specifically, whether an individual is born with eggs or sperm.
As Trump announced in his inaugural address, “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.”
According to multiple reports from a briefing by unnamed White House officials, federal agencies will be instructed to classify people by biological sex on government IDs like passports, visas, and personnel documents. In a long-anticipated move, agencies also will be ordered to stop interpreting sex discrimination laws in ways that protect trans people—inviting federal workplaces, schools, and social service programs like shelters to misgender and discriminate against trans people. Transgender women in federal prison reportedly will be transferred to men’s prisons and no longer provided with gender-affirming medical treatments—potentially forcing up to 1,500 incarcerated trans women to medically detransition.
The order is expected to attempt to cut off federal funding for gender-affirming medical treatments like hormone therapy—a move that primarily affects transgender adults. About 276,000 trans adults are on Medicaid, which uses a combination of federal and state funding, raising the possibility that Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care will be preserved in the roughly half of states that cover it. Other trans adults rely on Medicare, which covers hormone therapy as well as surgery on a case-by-case basis, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, which covers nonsurgical gender-affirming treatments. These treatments, which research suggests improve quality of life and mental health and reduce suicidality, are now in jeopardy.
Each of the new administration’s moves is expected to face immediate legal challenges. The ACLU has vowed to take the Trump administration to court “wherever we can” to defend LGBTQ rights. Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, are already engulfed in legal battles over whether the Constitution, as well as federal anti-sex discrimination laws, implicitly protect people from anti-trans discrimination. In 2023, the Montana legislature passed a law purporting to define sex as binary and biological, erasing transgender people from whole swaths of state code, but a Montana judge swiftly blocked it, declaring that it violated the state constitution.
The executive orders “do not and cannot change the law,” Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, who last month became the first openly trans person to argue before the Supreme Court, wrote on Instagram. “They will be glorified press releases designed to create confusion and chaos.”
“Today’s expected executive actions targeting the LGBTQ+ community serve no other purpose than to hurt our families and our communities,” Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson said in a statement. “We are not going anywhere, and we will fight back against these harmful provisions with everything we’ve got.”
The announcement of the order Monday makes good on Trump’s campaign promises to fight so-called “gender ideology”—a term that allows him and his allies to frame their policies as attacking a belief system, rather than targeting a minority group that makes up roughly 1 percent of the population. As trans people gained more public exposure and media representation in the 2010s, and especially since the Supreme Court recognized the right to same-sex marriage in 2015, right-wing and religious conservative groups have poured time and money into turning transgender rights into a wedge issue—ultimately seeding hundreds of anti-trans bills in state legislatures over the last several years. After holding off in the 2020 election cycle, Republican politicians and PACs went all-in on anti-trans rhetoric focusing on trans athletes and pronouns.
Transgender individuals and families with gender-diverse children have been bracing themselves and preparing for the Trump crackdown. After his reelection in November, LGBTQ organizations and advocates urged transgender people to update their gender markers on documents like passports and Social Security cards. Many have rationed and stockpiled medications. Others have moved from conservative states to places like Colorado, where state law provides strong protection for queer and trans people.
What's next, going back to the days of segregation?
How about this.
Trump escalates campaign against diversity, threatens private sector probes
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump- ... 025-01-22/Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his campaign against diversity programs on Tuesday by pressuring the private sector to join the initiative, ordering aviation officials to review diversity hires and telling government DEI employees they would be placed on paid leave.
The measures come one day after Trump on his first day in office issued a series of executive orders to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, which attempt to promote opportunities for women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people and other traditionally underrepresented groups.
Civil rights advocates have argued such programs are necessary to address longstanding inequities and structural racism.
In a new executive order issued on Tuesday, Trump revoked executive orders dating as far back as 1965 on environmental actions, equal employment opportunities and encouragement to federal contractors to achieve workforce balancing on race, gender and religion.
The 1965 order that was revoked was signed by President Lyndon Johnson to protect the rights of workers employed by federal contractors and ensure they remained free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, according to the Labor Department.
The Trump executive order seeks to dissuade private companies that receive government contracts from hiring employees from marginalized backgrounds - what the order called "illegal DEI discrimination and preferences" - and asked government agencies to identify private companies that might be subject to civil investigation.
"As a part of this plan, each agency shall identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large non-profit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of 500 million dollars or more, State and local bar and medical associations, and institutions of higher education with endowments over 1 billion dollars," the order said.
Full details on how the Trump administration would enforce "civil compliance investigations" were not immediately available.
Back to the 19th century if you aren't a MAGA white male supporter of TOS, then you are screwed. Expect loyalty oaths to TOS to be next and a required reading of a copy of the new MAGA Red Book of thoughts of our dear leader President Trump.
