Published January 21, 2025
The Person and Identity Project
PIP welcomes the Trump Administration’s “Day One” Executive Order “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” (January 20, 2025). This Executive Order repudiates the core claim of gender ideology, which seeks to “eradicate the biological reality of sex,” by redefining “sex” (a biological, immutable characteristic of the person) to mean “gender identity” (an “internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts”).
In addition, the Executive Order calls out the “legal and other socially coercive” tools by which gender ideology enables “men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers.” The damage wrought by gender ideology to women’s safety, privacy, and opportunity is substantial. As the Executive Order rightly notes, however, gender ideology has had “a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system.”
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Mary Rice Hasson, J.D., is the Kate O’Beirne Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., where she co-founded and directs the Person and Identity Project, an initiative that educates and equips parents and faith-based institutions to promote the truth about the human person and counter gender ideology.