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Links to the Executive Orders Affecting LGBTQ+ Lives​
A resource providing our community, family, friends, and allies with links to the names and texts of the actual executive orders issued since January 20, 2025. The substance and intent of the orders is less open to debate in this format. Text quotes are cited directly from the document listed. These are presented free of commentary, opinion, or interpretation. Being armed with the facts is the most important and forthright way to have a discussion about how LGBTQ+ existences are being denied by these Executive Orders.
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It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable ... “Sex” shall refer to an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female. “Sex” is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of “gender identity.” ...“Gender ideology” replaces the biological category of sex with an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity, permitting the false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice versa, and requiring all institutions of society to regard this false claim as true.
Recently, however, the Armed Forces have been afflicted with radical gender ideology to appease activists unconcerned with the requirements of military service like physical and mental health, selflessness, and unit cohesion....expressing a false “gender identity” divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service....This policy is inconsistent with the medical, surgical, and mental health constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria. This policy is also inconsistent with shifting pronoun usage or use of pronouns that inaccurately reflect an individual's sex....The Secretary shall promptly issue directives for DoD to end invented and identification-based pronoun usage
It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.---The phrase “chemical and surgical mutilation” means the use of puberty blockers ... to delay the onset or progression of normally timed puberty in an individual who does not identify as his or her sex ... This phrase sometimes is referred to as “gender affirming care.”... Ending Reliance on Junk Science ... agencies shall rescind or amend all policies that rely on WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) guidance, including WPATH's “Standards of Care Version 8”.
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.....schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies..... young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body and whether to view their parents and their reality as enemies to be blamed ... “Social transition” means the process of adopting a “gender identity” or “gender marker” that differs from a person's sex. This process can include psychological or psychiatric counseling or treatment ... modifying a person's name ... or pronouns ... calling a child “nonbinary” ... eliminating Federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology.
