The order includes turning off features of email and other systems that prompt users for their pronouns. Image: Allmy/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffOPM has told agencies to report by August 11 on what they have done to carry out a Trump administration executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
That first-day order set policy that the government recognizes only two sexes that “are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality,” and that “the Executive Branch will enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this reality,” OPM said in a memo on chcoc.gov
“During the Biden-Harris Administration, Federal workers with faith- and conscience-based objections to gender ideology were threatened with discipline and punishment for failing to use biologically inaccurate pronouns,” OPM said. “In addition, the Biden-Harris Administration sought to allow biological males to use bathrooms, locker rooms, and lactation rooms reserved for women, insisting that subjective ‘gender identity’ was all that mattered.”
It says agencies by now “should have already taken” steps to carry out the directives that “policies and documents shall consistently use sex and not ‘gender,’ and that women’s intimate spaces are protected.”
Those steps, it said, are to include: placing on paid administrative leave all employees whose department or position description “involved inculcating or promoting gender ideology”; canceling any such employee training; disbanding any such employee resource groups or special interest programs; and turning off features of email and other systems that prompt users for their pronouns.
Also: ensuring that agency-issued identification documents refer “to sex and not gender”; revoking policies that “reflected or promoted gender ideology, or else encouraged or promoted the classification of employees based on gender instead of biological sex”; and ensuring that spaces such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and lactation rooms “are designated by biological sex and not gender identity.”
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