Ahead of his swearing-in, President Donald Trump has made it clear he means business. There’s an entire slate of executive orders he intends to sign as soon as he’s officially POTUS, covering a wide range of topics, including the border and the economy, as well as matters involving DEI and gender ideology.
Per reports, Trump plans to take part in a signing ceremony at the Capitol immediately following the inauguration but then appears set to do some signing at the Capital One Arena during the indoor “parade” festivities there.
Monday morning, the Trump-Vance transition team hosted several press calls regarding the anticipated orders. One was titled “Restoring Common Sense” and focused on two orders in particular. Here’s the rundown on these orders:
WASHINGTON — President Trump will on his first day in office Monday issue an order defining a person’s sex as “male or female” — requiring government agencies to use the “immutable” designation on forms and IDs while also ordering changes to federal prison policies that govern transgender inmates.
“What we’re doing today is defining that it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes: male and female. These are sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality,” an incoming White House official told reporters.
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The order will prevent people from changing their sex on US passports — which currently allow for holders to choose male, female or “X” — and will attempt to ban medical transition treatment for prisoners. Both new policies are likely to face litigation.
The order will require the State Department, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies ” to ensure that official government documents, including passports and visas, reflect sex accurately,” the incoming official said.
The order is also directed at “protecting intimate spaces for women.”
“We’re going to add privacy in intimate spaces… like women’s prisons, women’s migrant shelters, rape shelters — to make sure the taxpayer funds are not being used to have so-called transition services,” the incoming official said about Trump’s order.
It’s unclear how the policy will impact transgender prisoners currently in women’s prisons.
Moreover, on this MLK Day, Trump will issue an order to “end wasteful DEI programs” and return to treating Americans on the content of their character, not the color of their skin. The purpose is to treat Americans with equality and as individuals, a purpose which May Mailman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Policy Strategist, characterized as both morally and legally required.
As indicated above, the orders will undoubtedly face legal challenges. Nevertheless, they lay down a marker, indicating that the Trump administration will be focused on, among other things, rooting out woke ideology from the bureaucracy.
