{"id":324922,"date":"2025-01-22T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=324922"},"modified":"2025-01-21T20:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:27:12","slug":"trump-eo-gender-ideology-person-conception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-eo-gender-ideology-person-conception\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump EO on gender ideology makes pro-life references to ‘person… at conception’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In one of his first presidential actions, President Trump signed an executive order<\/a> reaffirming that there are only two genders \u2014 male and female \u2014 while also affirming that life and personhood begin at conception<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The declaration, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” firmly establishes that there are only two biological sexes. As a result of the order, federal agencies are now to refer to a person’s “sex” rather than “gender,” and remove any form of communication that would \u201cpromote gender ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

The order begins:<\/p>\n

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\u2019s domestic abuse shelters to women\u2019s 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. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

As the order goes on to define ‘male’ and ‘female,’ the language clearly states that personhood starts at conception<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/<\/p><\/div>\n

The order states (emphases added), “‘Female’ means a person belonging, at conception<\/strong> to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell” and “‘Male’ means a person belonging, at conception<\/strong>, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.” As written, this could have big implications for those fighting for the protection of preborn children from abortion, as well as those created via IVF.<\/p>\n

READ: Pressured to end her pregnancy due to PPROM, she held on\u2026 and witnessed a miracle<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The 14th Amendment<\/a> states that no person<\/em> shall be deprived of “life, liberty, or property without due process of law,” and all persons deserve “the equal protection of the law.” The subject of personhood has long been wrestled with legally, especially in IVF cases<\/a> in which parents have had to fight for the dignity of their children being stored as frozen embryos.<\/p>\n

In other instances, those fighting against abortion have tried<\/a> to get the courts to recognize that preborn children are persons. However, Trump himself has vocalized support<\/a> for IVF, calling the Republican party “the party of IVF.” That support would seemingly be at odds with the order.<\/p>\n

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BREAKING: President Trump\u2019s executive order that proclaims that there are only TWO GENDERS also recognizes that human life BEGINS AT CONCEPTION! pic.twitter.com\/w9tRjnOpM1<\/a><\/p>\n

— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) January 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n