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In 10 Days, Four Anti-Trans Exec Orders & a Bathroom Ban for Fed Employees
Keep looking up. Trump 2025 has been in office for a bit over a week.
Here’s a list to keep track of the anti-trans actions of the Trump administration in the 10 days since he was sworn in. Already, he’s issued four executive orders that are anti-trans and many others that can affect trans people intersectionally or in unexpected ways.
This is a partial fulfillment of the wish list of the Heritage Foundation via Project 2025, signed on the desk of President Donald Trump. It will get worse. Know your allies, know your enemies, and keep looking up.
The Four Anti-Trans Orders
#1: No gender identity, only unchangeable sex assigned at birth
The first anti-trans order establishes a definition of sex and aims to “promote this reality.” It says the government will use the words “women” and “girls” only to refer to females, and “men” and “boys” only to refer to males.
By contrast, it defines the term “gender ideology” as the belief that men can become women, that women can become men, and that there are other genders too. It says that this competing idea “fundamentally attack[s] women by depriving…
