Trump’s executive actions restrict transgender focus rights to “Paula Ideology” – Boise State Public Radio Public Radio

On the first day, the recently discovered President Trump signed an order aimed at eliminating the idea of ​​a “sexual identity” separate from sex in the federal government. The scope of the order is wide-it cancels a long list of policies from the Biden era, changes the “sex” of “sex” in government forms and calls for the termination of funding for “gender ideology”.

This phrase, “gender ideology,” became one of Trump’s favorite slogans on the tracks of the campaign last year.

“I will take historical action to defeat the toxic poison of gender ideology and confirm that God created two sexes, males and women,” he said in a campaign in October.

Now, in this order and in several that followed, the administration is trying to put a long -standing political phrase in practice, trying to ensure that the government does not encourage or support what it calls “gender ideology”. This means first to give the slogan a definition.

And this definition is a long paragraph:

Opponents say the definition – and therefore the execution of the order in the government – is confusing loose. Of Harper Seldin, a senior lawyer for staff at the American Union for Civil Liberties, an advocacy group focused on civil rights, including transsexual rights, that laxity is deliberate.

“This is written in a way that is intended to be wide, but for a specific purpose that is to push trance and non-bodied people from civic life,” he said.

Jay Richards, director of the Richard and Helen Devos Center at the Conservative Heritage Foundation, the definition works.

“” The skirt ideology “, as used in the executive order, is quite common, but it is not difficult to annoy what is meant under the term, in fact considering the effects and the emphasis of the executive order itself,” he said.

“Pxular Ideology” as an official policy

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The term “gender ideology” existed long before Trump began to use it. According to FACBASE, which archives Trump’s public appearances, he first said the phrase publicly in 2022. Transsexual and unprecedented people and their allies opposed the term “gender ideology”, as this implies a system of beliefs, not identity.

“If we had an enforcement order saying” left hand ideology “, people would immediately understand that this was not quite right,” said Seldin of ACLU. “Being a leftist is just a natural variation. The same is that it is a transgender.”

Nearly 2 million elderly Americans identify themselves as transsexual, according to a 2023 study by KFF and Washington PostJust under 1 percent of adults as a whole.

The administrative note, which provides directives for the execution of the executive order, has caused more confusion and even fear.

A mental health provider at the Ministry of Veterans talks to NPR anonymously out of fear of revenge. They said that the guidelines of their work could be shifted from day to day, for example, what statistics they could use in presentations.

They also pointed out a line in the note, saying that employees whose jobs include a quote “Promoting gender ideology” should be placed on paid leave.

“When we read that we were, what does it mean? Is that from us?” said the supplier. “Or because of the way our profession looks at gender, are we all?”

In the end, the Provider fears that if politics impedes mental health care, the percentage of suicide among transgenarian patients may increase.

A White House spokesman, speaking of origin, to provide the general opinion of the administration, told the NPR that they were standing until the definition.

Focused on safety

The definition of the administration has a greater impact than Trump’s original action focused on “gender ideology”. It also factors in orders aimed at eliminating this “ideology” from the military and K-12 schools.

Trump and his allies have long claimed that all this is about preserving women and girls.

“It is anxiety, especially in children, and especially in private female spaces, and in particular, in my opinion, women’s prisons, the categories of gender ideology have begun to dissolve the clear distinction between biological sexes,” Richards says in the inheritance Foundation.

He indicates cases where women in prison blame transgender prisoners of abuse, including rape. Government data show that transsexual prisoners are at a higher risk of sexual victimization than other prisoners.

The actions of the administration come against the backdrop of a broader lack of clarity on the legitimate rights of transgender people in the United States.

For example, the Supreme Court ruled that employers cannot fire transgender workers. But they have not indicated additional specifics – for example, the use of the bathroom and the dressing room. For Seldin, this lack of clarity gives these orders more power.

“I think the executive orders like this give people to press the boundaries of what they can do,” he said.

A transsexual woman working in the intelligence for the defense performer also speaks to the NPR Anonymous for fear of revenge. She was told she soon was losing access to the women’s bathroom at work.

But Trump’s various executive orders make her wonder what else is coming. She pointed out the order for “sexual ideology” in the military, which says that he was a transgenier, “contradicts the soldier’s commitment to an honorary, righteous and disciplined lifestyle.”

If this logic extends beyond military members, she said she was afraid to lose her security permission and therefore her work. As a result, she moves to a friend’s basement.

“I don’t feel comfortable to sign a new leasing anywhere,” she said. “It is very difficult to focus and feel motivated to work for a government that seems to be able to fire me any moment.”

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