President Trump: ‘We will defend women by upholding biological reality in law’

The US Government has declared that the “immutable biological reality of sex” is male and female.

In one of his first acts as President, Donald Trump has issued an executive order entitled ‘Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government’, which ensures that sex-based laws will “protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes” and rescinds previous guidance promoting gender ideology.

The executive order instructs Government agencies to protect single-sex spaces, including rape shelters and prisons, and guarantee that no funding is given to trans-affirming procedures.

‘Coercive’

The President stated: “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.”

He added that “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.”

Protections

The House of Representatives has passed the ‘Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025’ by 218 to 206 votes, which now proceeds to the Senate.

Under the proposed law, men will be restricted from women’s sports in Government-funded school and university programs.

Speaking after the vote, House Speaker Mike Johnson, said: “We know from Scripture and from nature that men are men and women are women and men cannot become women. It’s sad that we have to say that.”

Athletics

In December, the previous US Government abandoned plans to force school districts to allow boys to compete in girls’ sports.

A federal court in the US state of Kentucky later blocked a separate attempt to include “gender identity” in Title IX rules banning discrimination on the basis of sex in athletics.

The ruling, which concluded that the law is “based on the enduring physical differences between the sexes”, prevented the Department of Education from enforcing it in any school across the country.