CNN is so worried that this order will "upend" the passport system."
Because Biden ordered the State Department to issue passports based on pretend-gender rather than sex, creating an "X" gender.
Weird that CNN wasn't upset that Bidens order then would "upend" the passport system.
Trump two-gender edict will upend 'X' identity on passports
The federal government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, under an executive order that President Donald Trump signed Monday.
The order reverses efforts by the Biden administration to broaden gender identity designations, including on passports.
"As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female," Trump said during his inaugural address Monday, taking an early step to fulfill one of his culture war campaign promises.
Titled "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," the order says that "sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality."
The federal government will also shift from using the term "gender" to "sex," and that sex is "an individual's immutable biological classification," a Trump administration official told reporters Monday.
All government agencies will ensure that official documents, including passports, visas and Global Entry cards, "accurately reflect the holder's sex," the executive order says. Also, departments running federal prisons, migrant shelters, rape shelters and other "intimate spaces" will be directed to protect single-sex spaces for privacy. And employee records will also adhere to the executive order, as will federal departments' messaging.
"Agencies are no longer going to promote gender ideology through communication forms and other messages," the official said, adding that grants and contracts will be reviewed to ensure that "federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology."
Reversing Biden expansion
Trump's executive order will dismantle efforts by the Biden administration to be more inclusive of Americans' gender identification.
As of 2022, US citizens have been able to select "X" as their gender marker on passports. One's marker does not need to match the gender on citizenship documents or photo ID, nor is medical documentation needed to change one's gender, according to the State Department.
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Later that year, Americans were able to start changing their sex identification with the Social Security Administration without needing to provide medical certification. However, Social Security's record systems still require a designation of male or female, though the administration said it was exploring policy and systems updates to support an "X" designation.
This shrieking outrage about rolling the clock back to, checks notes, the savage and barbaric year 2022, isn't going to work this time.
I mentioned this poll yesterday, quoting Megyn Kelly talking about it, but I didn't know it was a NY Times poll. The most liberal of all liberal polls.
Americans never supported this bullshit, but were bullied into pretending they did.
Asked about society's accommodations of transgender people, just under a majority of the respondents thought "society has gone too far in accommodating" this population, including 77% of Republicans and 23% of Democrats. Only 21% of the overall group thought "society has not gone far enough in accommodating" trans people, including 16% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats.
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Asked about natal males who identify as female and whether they should be permitted to compete in women's sports, the overwhelming majority--79%--of the respondents said no, including almost all Republicans (94%) and two thirds of Democrats (67%). Such opposition from Democrats in particular is remarkable, given the blowback that Representatives Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Seth Moulton (D-MA) incurred from the left after making statements in the immediate wake of the election that were disdainful of girls' sports remaining open to natal boys who identify as female. That said, the Times poll asked about women and not girls specifically. It is possible Democrats would have more nuanced answers based on the age of the children and type of sport.
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A sizable majority of the poll's respondents--71%--said that no minors should have access to blockers or hormones for trans care, including close to all Republicans (90%) and a majority of Democrats (54%). Among the 26% of the overall group who said that minors should have such access, only 10% of the overall group thought children as young as 10 to 14 should access these drugs, including just 2% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats.
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The poll result regarding sports suggests that over the past couple of years, Americans have increasingly soured on natal males who identify as female participating in female sports. About 62% to 65% said they were opposed to such participation in the 2023 WaPo poll, compared with 79% in the new Times poll.
Whereas the 2023 WaPo poll found that 42% of respondents thought that 15 to 17 year olds should have access to cross-sex hormones, just 26% of the new Times poll respondents thought that 15 to 18 year olds should have access to blockers and hormones.
Via David Strom, who writes:
Something important happened during the campaign: it became OK to speak your mind again. At first the change was tentative, and now it is turning into a flood. Progressive ideology is losing its power to intimidate. It's still out there, but it will be more and more marginalized.
Corporations are dropping their DEI programs, female athletes are speaking up, Americans are vocally objecting to alphabet ideology, and the courts are pushing back on institutions punishing people for speaking their conscience.
Correct. It's liberating. As Justine Bateman said, we're free to speak our minds again "after four years of walking on eggshells." (Longer than that, of course, but you get the point.)
The WSJ writes that being MAGA has gone from being a social/career death sentence to being... hip?
Across many facets of society--in sports, entertainment, the classroom and the workplace--there are signs that MAGA isn't just retaking the White House. It is gaining a firmer foothold in the broader culture.
Instead of taking a knee to call for social justice, NFL players are doing the "Trump dance" in the end zone at football games. Mainstream entertainers, among them the country singer Carrie Underwood and the rapper Snoop Dogg, agreed to perform at events celebrating Donald Trump's inauguration, something music stars largely shunned eight years ago.
A new generation of Trump-friendly comedians and wellness influencers is populating YouTube and other social media, while a snippet of audio featuring Barron and Melania Trump has become one of the hottest online memes, with celebrities such as Paris Hilton and brands including Frontier Airlines using it in their TikTok and Instagram posts.
"Every time I walk on campus, I see a few MAGA hats. That's definitely new," said Carson Carpenter, 19, a senior at Arizona State University. Conservatism, he said, "has really become intertwined in our pop culture.... It's really showing that conservatism is cool now."
Guys, this is kind of stressing: Have we gone mainstream?!?!