Executive Order 14168

Executive Order 14168, titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government", is an executive order issued by Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States, on January 20, 2025, the day of the inauguration of his second presidency. Part of a broader targeting and persecution of transgender people in the United States, the order prohibits the federal government from recognizing the gender identity of transgender people. It requires the federal government to replace usages of "gender" with "sex", defining sex as an immutable male–female binary determined "at conception", and orders ceasing all funding for gender-affirming care and the promotion of "gender ideology", disallowing gender self-identification on federal documents such as passports, and prohibiting transgender people from using sex-segregated spaces congruent with their gender in federally funded facilities. It also calls upon the attorney general to re-evaluate the application of Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) as to not provide Title VII protection based on gender identity in federal activities. Provisions of the order have faced legal challenges, with temporary restraining orders having been issued to suspend the withholding of federal funding to programs that fund gender-affirming care and promote "gender ideology", the forced transfers of transgender inmates to facilities congruent with their sex assigned at birth, the prohibition of gender self-ID on passports, and the mass removal of documents published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services that mention topics related to "gender ideology".