President Donald Trump has issued several executive actions aimed at reforming public education in the United States, including one that targets transgender ideology, keeping a promise he made after winning the 2024 election.
“We will get critical race theory and transgender insanity the [expletive] out of our schools, and we’re going to get it out of our schools very fast,” he said during a Dec. 22, 2024, rally in Arizona.
Under an order Trump signed Monday, all prior U.S. Department of Education guidance documents relevant to gender ideology are rescinded, including a tip sheet on implementing Title IX regulations, a toolkit for creating “inclusive and nondiscriminatory schools environments for LGBTQI+ students,” guides for supporting transgender youth in schools, and a back-to-school message for transgender youth from the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services….