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When President Donald Trump took office on January 20, 2025, he executed 46 presidential actions. Of the latter, several had to do with governmental DEI initiatives. To list a few major ones…

• Trump dismantled federal DEI programs in an executive order titled “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing.” The order calls for the termination of all DEI, accessibility, and environmental justice offices and positions across the federal government.

• He repealed several Biden-era DEI directives which centered around LGBTQ ideology promotion in the educational setting, and repealed an order expressly allowing transgender persons to serve in the military.

• The U.S. government must now recognize two genders only – male and female – and will no longer view “sex” as including the concept of “gender identity,” in relation to passports, visas, Global Entry cards and all other forms and documents, and in all programs and communications.

• In an executive order titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government,” Trump forbids federal money, including grants, from being used to “promote gender ideology” and direct the attorney general and Homeland Security secretary to “ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers.”

From the wording of the orders, most of these DEI-related actions took place on the basis of the belief that DEI initiatives spread discrimination and danger rather than eliminating them. It looks like the federal government has stamped its punctuation mark on the denouement of DEI programs already happening in American businesses.

Sources:

AP News and TIME magazine