The president of the United States, Donald Trump, assured this Monday that will restore “common sense” to the country by revoking executive orders that protected against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
“To begin the policies that will make our nation united again and fair, secure and prosperous, it is the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the federal government,” he stated in one of his first orders signed after taking office again. .
The president pointed out that the Joe Biden Administration had incorporated practices “deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal and radical in every government agency and office.”
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Diversity and inclusion
Likewise, he maintained that the inclusion of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) in public institutions has corrupted themreplacing “hard work, merit and equality with a divisive and dangerous preference hierarchy.”
Among the first decrees he signed, Trump once again banned transgender people from serving in the Armyrevoking a 2021 Biden executive order that eliminated any sex discrimination in access to Armed forces.
The veto on the enlistment of transsexuals in the Armed Forces was imposed in 2018 during Trump’s first termthrough a Department of Defense regulation that, however, did not recommend the expulsion of military personnel who had already undergone a sex change operation.
On the sidelines, Trump added that the orders to “open the border” (…) “have endangered the American people and have dissolved federal, state and local resources that should be used for the benefit of the American people,” and “extremism climate has triggered inflation.
For this reason, he proceeded to revoke a long list of executive orders in force.
Among them, the one that advanced in favor of a racial equity and support for underserved communities through the federal government, which was committed to preventing and combating discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation and which established a White House Gender Policy Council.
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He also ordered an end to the executive order that guaranteed an educational environment free of gender discrimination.which defended an “equitable” response to the pandemic and which improved and expanded access to treatments against covid-19, which created a comprehensive regional framework to address the causes of migration.
This Monday, in his speech after being inaugurated, he had stated that he would make it the “official policy” of his new Government recognize only two gender identities, “male and female.”
JM