Trump to issue executive order defining sex as ‘male and female’: ‘These are sexes that are not changeable’

( NYPost )

President Trump will on his first day in office Monday issue an order defining a person’s sex as “male or female” — requiring government agencies to use the “immutable” designation on forms and IDs while also ordering changes to federal prison policies that govern transgender inmates.

“What we’re doing today is defining that it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes: male and female. These are sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality,” an incoming White House official told reporters.

The policies are included in an executive order — one of dozens that Trump, 78, is expected to sign shortly after he assumes the presidency around noon.

The order will prevent people from changing their sex on US passports — which currently allow for holders to choose male, female or “X” — and will attempt to ban medical transition treatment for prisoners. Both new policies are likely to face litigation.

The order will require the State Department, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies ” to ensure that official government documents, including passports and visas, reflect sex accurately,” the incoming official said.

Americans have since 2010 — including Trump’s first term — been able to change their sex on passports by submitting forms with a physician’s approval.

However, outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken ended the doctor’s sign-off for passports in 2021 and added the “X” gender marker in 2022.

The prison policies, meanwhile, will impact a population that the ACLU estimates at 1,200 federal inmates.

“We’re going to add privacy in intimate spaces… like women’s prisons, women’s migrant shelters, rape shelters — to make sure the taxpayer funds are not being used to have so-called transition services,” the incoming official said about Trump’s order.

It’s unclear how the policy will impact transgender prisoners currently in women’s prisons.

Very few transgender inmates have received transition surgeries on the taxpayer’s dime — with Texas inmate Donna Langan believed to have become the first in December 2022, the 19th reported.

Transgender rights became a campaign issue ahead of last year’s election — with Trump vowing to attempt to end the participation of people born male in female sports.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, the outgoing vice president, received negative coverage and groans from her allies following the unearthing of her past pledge to support for taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal immigrants in federal custody.

Harris defended herself by arguing that doing so was the law and that Trump would have to follow the same guidelines.