On June 29, 2023, President Donald J. Trump made a promise to American women through a simple statement Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) had written.
On January 20, 2025, just hours after being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States for his second term, he took the first step to deliver on that promise by signing an Executive Order “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
The purpose, as expressed in the order, tells the story of a President who has listened to the voice of millions of women who are tired of being sacrificed on the altar of a pernicious and radical ideology. Here is what it says:
Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit 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. This is wrong. 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.
This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts. Invalidating the true and biological category of “woman” improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.
Accordingly, my Administration will defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.
The hundreds of thousands of women members of CWALAC celebrate President Trump’s leadership and commitment to fighting for true women’s rights in such meaningful ways. We are committed to praying continually for the President and his administration as they continue to tackle the important issues we face as a nation.
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Click here to read the entire Executive Order as presented by the White House.