Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government

The order directs all federal agencies to treat sex as a binary, immutable biological characteristic and to apply new binding definitions of "sex," "male," "female," "woman," "man," "girl," and "boy" — definitions that explicitly exclude gender identity — in all statutes, regulations, guidance, forms, and agency communications. It requires the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security and the Director of OPM to update government-issued ID documents (passports, visas, Global Entry cards) to reflect biological sex. The Attorney General must immediately issue guidance correcting what the order calls a misapplication of Bostock v. Clayton County to sex-based distinctions. HHS must publish public guidance within 30 days. Multiple Biden-era EOs are rescinded, and the White House Gender Policy Council is dissolved.

Agencies must remove all existing policies, statements, regulations, and forms that promote gender ideology and must cease issuing new ones. Federal funds may not be used to promote gender ideology; grantees and contractors are subject to that prohibition. HUD must prepare a notice-and-comment rulemaking to rescind a 2016 equal-access rule. The Bureau of Prisons must revise medical care policies for inmates to align with the order, and males may not be housed in women's detention facilities. Agency heads must file full implementation reports to OMB within 120 days.

All federal agencies and their employees must immediately change how they use sex and gender terminology in official work. People applying for or holding passports, visas, and Global Entry cards are affected by the ID document changes. Federal prison inmates, domestic-violence and rape-shelter clients, federal contractors, and organizations receiving federal grants are all directly reached by the order's new requirements.

Transgender and nonbinary individuals will no longer have their gender identity recognized in federal documents, federal facilities, or federally funded programs. Organizations that receive federal grants or contracts and use gender-identity frameworks must conform to the new definitions or risk losing funding. Prior federal guidance protecting gender-identity access to schools, shelters, and workplaces is rescinded.

The order cascades in stages: the Attorney General acts immediately on Bostock guidance; HHS issues public definitional guidance within 30 days; the Legislative Affairs office delivers proposed bill text within 30 days; agencies audit and remove noncompliant policies on a rolling basis; and all agency heads report full implementation to OMB within 120 days. Government ID changes require interagency coordination among State, DHS, and OPM. The HUD rulemaking to rescind the 2016 equal-access rule requires notice-and-comment, so that specific change will unfold over months. A severability clause preserves the rest of the order if any provision is invalidated.