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This order threatens providers of gender-affirming healthcare with loss of federal research and education grant funds, and potential enforcement of unrelated criminal laws.

This order is a full-throated attack on the ability of transgender youth to access gender-affirming medical care, even when their parents and doctors agree that such care is in their best interest, and even though similar procedures are allowed for cisgender individuals. The order directs the federal government to take immediate steps to ensure that any institution receiving federal research or education grants does not provide puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, or gender-affirming surgery to anyone under the age of 19 (including 18-year-olds, who are legally adults). It also directs agencies to rescind guidance based on the WPATH Standards of Care, the leading medical authority on gender-affirming healthcare standards. It directs the Attorney General to weaponize the enforcement of unrelated laws, like those prohibiting consumer fraud and female genital mutilation, against the provision of gender-affirming healthcare. The order also contains numerous instructions for other federal agencies to roll out over time.

This order claims that being transgender is incompatible with military service and directs the Secretary of Defense to take steps to erase the existence of transgender troops.

Falsely claiming that the acceptance and inclusion of transgender people within the Armed Forces is detrimental to unit cohesion, this order seeks to revive President Trump's trans military ban, which was challenged and blocked numerous times under the first Trump administration. The order states that the policy of the United States Government is to exclude from military service people with gender dysphoria and people who use pronouns that do not reflect their sex assigned at birth. The order directs the Secretary of Defense to promptly issue directives to the Department of Defense revoking inclusive pronoun usage and states that the Armed Forces shall not allow people to use sex-segregated facilities that do not align with their sex assigned at birth.

This order seeks to ban transgender girls from participating on girls' sports teams and from girls' locker rooms, and discourages trans inclusion in international competitions.

This executive order seeks to ban transgender girls from girls' sports teams and locker rooms in the name of protecting girls, but it does just the opposite. These bans harm all girls, including cisgender girls, by subjecting them to increased gender policing and arbitrary and invasive investigations. This order also harms intersex and nonbinary students as it increases surveillance of their bodies. The order directs the Secretary of Education to weaponize Title IX's protections against sex discrimination and bring enforcement actions against schools that allow transgender girls to participate on girls' sports teams or use girls' locker rooms, threatening the loss of federal funding for schools that do not comply. This is despite the fact that many federal courts have held that Title IX protects transgender students, and that the Supreme Court has held that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is a form of sex discrimination in an analogous civil-rights context. The order also directs the Secretary of State to rescind support for and participation in sports programs that allow trans women on women's teams, including the Olympics (which the United States is set to host in Los Angeles in 2028). And, it directs the Secretary of State to promote these discriminatory interests internationally, including at the United Nations.

The order eliminated the Federal Executive Institute, which has grown leadership and management skills in over 30,000 senior federal leaders since 1968.

The order eliminated the Federal Executive Institute, which has developed leadership and management skills in over 30,000 senior federal leaders since 1968.

This order siphons money from struggling public schools for the benefit of private entities

This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to submit guidance within 60 days on how states can use federal funds to support K-12 so-called educational choice initiatives and within 90 days, the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Education must issue guidance to use discretionary grant programs to allegedly expand choice. It also orders the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on how states receiving block grants can use them to expand educational choice, "including private and faith-based options." Lastly, it also orders a review within 90 days of school choice for military-connected families and for students eligible to attend Bureau of Indian Education schools. This order will siphon federal money that should have been for public schools to unaccountable private corporations with little to no oversight. These subsidies for mostly wealthy families will also hurt students and magnify existing educational inequalities.

This order rescinds key protections enacted after Dobbs to ensure access to abortion.

This order rescinds two Biden administration EOs — issued weeks after the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade — that strengthened or clarified abortion protections nationwide. This Trump order rests on false claims that the rescinded Biden EOs required "forced" federal funding of abortions. The first rescinded EO directed agencies to seek ways to expand access to and share information about reproductive healthcare, and created an interagency task force to coordinate those efforts. That task force made significant gains for people whose rights had been stripped, including clarifying rules for hospitals required to provide emergency care by federal law. The second rescinded Biden EO promoted non-discrimination in, and data collection for, reproductive healthcare.