The heads of U.S. agencies have been ordered to make sure that bathrooms and similar spaces are designated by biological sex, according to a new memorandum aimed at implementing one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
Agency heads must have by 5 p.m. ET on Jan. 31 taken “prompt actions to end all agency programs that use taxpayer money to promote or reflect gender ideology,” Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, said in the memo, which was distributed on Wednesday.
Specific steps to implement Trump’s order include terminating all programs, contracts, and grants that “promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology,” placing employees who promote gender ideology on leave, taking down all websites that promote gender ideology, withdrawing any directives or statements that promote gender ideology, disbanding employee groups that promote gender ideology, and canceling any gender ideology training….