President-elect Donald Trump will be “restoring biological truth” and doing away with governmental diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in two executive orders Monday.

One executive order will focus on “defending women from gender ideology extremism” and would focus on how the “erasure of sex and language and policy has had a corrosive impact, not just on women, but on the validity of the American system,” according to an incoming White House official.

“When the government fails to recognize the truth and treat self-identification as more important than biological sex, people do no longer trust their government,” the official said in a call with reporters Monday. “They can no longer understand the words that their government is using, no longer trust the policies that their government is issuing.

The order would mandate the government to recognize two sexes, male and female, and clearly define what they are. It would get rid of gender ideology rhetoric and policies already in place and mandate that biological sex would be on governmental documents such as passports, instead of gender identity.

An incoming Trump administration official said it would also affect how people are separated in places like prisons and migrant centers and other spaces where men and women are kept separately.

Another executive order will end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives throughout the federal government, which includes hiring practices, environmental justice programs, equity-related grants and other equity action plans.

“This order is meant to return to the promise and the hope that has captured five civil rights champions that one day all Americans can be treated on the basis of their character and not by the color of their skin,” the official said.

The official added that this initiative “is going to increase the possibility for all Americans and allow people to be treated as equal and the empowerment that comes with being treated as an equal, being treated as an individual by your government.”

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.