The United States Office of Personnel Management sent a memo to the heads and acting heads of departments and agencies instructing them to end gender ideology in their programs.
By 5:00 p.m. EST on January 31, all forms of media promoting gender ideology and all prompts for personal pronoun usage are to be terminated. Agencies are to detail one’s sex on forms rather than gender.
The memo comes as President Donald Trump signed his executive order on “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
“Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself,” the order says.
The order further confirms that the United States will recognize two sexes, male and female.
Earlier this week, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas announced that the agency is “returning to its mission of protecting women from sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination in the workplace by rolling back the Biden administration’s gender identity agenda,” a press release said.
The release details Lucas’ actions to defend the binary reality of sex, remove a “pronoun app,” and end the use of “X” as a gender marker.
“Biology is not bigotry. Biological sex is real, and it matters,” Lucas said. “Sex is binary (male and female) and immutable. It is not harassment to acknowledge these truths—or to use language like pronouns that flow from these realities, even repeatedly.”
Through its previous “gender identity” initiatives, the EEOC “betrayed women by attacking their sex-based rights in the workplace. That must end,” she added.
