I will revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called gender affirming care.
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Derived from a tracked promise: “I will revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called gender affirming care.”
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- Los Angeles Bladehttps://www.losangelesblade.com/2023/02/01/trump-to-weaponize-feds-against-trans-americans-if-reelected/ ↗
“I will ask Congress to pass a bill establishing the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female, and they are assigned at birth.”
- The Daily Beasthttps://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-hell-ban-federal-government-from-promoting-transgender-care-at-any-age/ ↗
“I will ask Congress… to send a bill to my desk prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states.”
“I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.”
- U.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo.gov)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-119hdoc1/html/CDOC-119hdoc1.htm ↗
“Now, I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children, and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.”
“I will revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called gender affirming care.”
- White House (Executive Order 14187)https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/ ↗
“The Secretary of HHS shall promptly withdraw HHS's March 2, 2022, guidance document titled "HHS Notice and Guidance on Gender Affirming Care, Civil Rights and Patient Privacy"”
- White House (Executive Order 14168)https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/ ↗
“including but not limited to Executive Orders 13988 of January 20, 2021, 14004 of January 25, 2021, 14020 and 14021 of March 8, 2021, and 14075 of June 15, 2022. These Executive Orders are hereby rescinded.”
- 2024 Republican Party Platform – The American Presidency Projecthttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-party-platform ↗
“We will keep men out of women's sports, ban Taxpayer funding for sex change surgeries, and stop Taxpayer-funded Schools from promoting gender transition, reverse Biden's radical rewrite of Title IX Education Regulations, and restore protections for women and girls.”
- U.S. Department of Educationhttps://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-enforce-2020-title-ix-rule-protecting-women ↗
“the department's Office for Civil Rights will enforce the Trump Administration's 2020 Title IX Rule.”
“Other provisions were flagged by the parliamentarian, including one barring Medicaid from covering gender affirming care and denying coverage to some Medicaid recipients who are not U.S. citizens.”
- The White Househttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/ ↗
“it is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities”
- The Singju Post – RNC 2024 Acceptance Speech Transcripthttps://singjupost.com/full-transcript-donald-trumps-speech-at-rnc-2024/ ↗
“We will not have men playing in women's sports. That will end immediately.”
“Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls' sports”
“The administration, which opposes state policies that allow transgender athletes to fully participate in girls’ and women’s sports, sued California over the issue.”
- Compilation of Presidential Documents (govinfo.gov)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500135/html/DCPD-202500135.htm ↗
“Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs shall present to the President proposed bill text to codify the definitions in this order.”
- Office of Senator Bill Cassidy (senate.gov)https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-marshall-colleagues-introduce-bill-to-ratify-trump-executive-order-defining-male-and-female/ ↗
“codify President Trump's executive order establishing legal definitions of male, female, and sex to ensure they are based on biological reality rather than radical, left-wing ideology”
- The Daily Signalhttps://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/03/child-abuse-president-trump-presents-plan-stop-mutilation-youth-name-transgender-identity ↗
“I will declare that any hospital or health care provider that participates in the chemical or physical mutilation of minor youth will no longer meet federal health and safety standards for Medicaid and Medicare and will be terminated from the program immediately.”
- Compilation of Presidential Documents (govinfo.gov)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500192/html/DCPD-202500192.htm ↗
“take all appropriate actions to end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children, including regulatory and sub-regulatory actions”
- Federal Register (govinfo.gov)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-19/html/2025-23465.htm ↗
“any pharmaceutical or surgical intervention that attempts to align an individual's physical appearance or body with a stated identity that differs from the individual's sex”
“the U.S. government will now recognize only two sexes, male and female”
“A federal judge on Thursday struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation's schools and universities.”
- White House (Executive Order 14190)https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/ ↗
“eliminating Federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology”
“By a 5-4 vote, the justices allowed the administration to keep frozen $65 million for teacher training and professional development, halting a lower court order that had temporarily reinstated the grants.”
- Roll Call Factbase – NRA Annual Meeting Transcripthttps://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-nra-annual-meeting-indianapolis-indiana-april-14-2023/ ↗
“Upon my inauguration, I will direct the FDA to convene… an independent outside panel to investigate whether transgender hormone treatments and ideology increase the risk of extreme depression, aggression and even violence.”
- PinkNewshttps://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/15/donald-trump-gender-affirming-healthcare-trans-nra-speech/ ↗
“Upon my inauguration, I will direct the FDA to convene – and it's going to happen quickly – an independent outside panel to investigate whether transgender hormone treatments and ideology increase the risk of extreme depression, aggression and even violence.”
“the Department of Health and Human Services published a 400-page document entitled "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices." The review's authors are not being named by HHS.”
- U.S. Department of Justicehttps://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-proposes-legislation-protect-children-gender-mutilation ↗
“creates a private right of action for children and the parents of children whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals practicing chemical and surgical mutilation”
- Washington Bladehttps://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/01/31/donald-trump-would-consider-justices-to-overturn-marriage-ruling/ ↗
“I would be very strong on putting certain judges on the bench that I think maybe could change things. It should be a state's rights issue. That's the way it should have been ruled, not the way they did.”
- The American Presidency Projecthttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-washington-county-fair-park-west-bend-wisconsin ↗
“on crime, I am going to support more police in our communities, appoint the best prosecutors and judges in the country, pursue strong enforcement of federal laws, and I am going to break up the gangs, the cartels and criminal syndicates terrorizing our neighborhoods.”
“Nearly a year after the creation of Joint Task Force Vulcan, an initiative aimed specifically at taking down MS-13, Barr announced Wednesday that law enforcement has helped dismantle the leadership of the transnational gang in the U.S.”
- U.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-201700590/html/DCPD-201700590.htm ↗
“Executive Order 13688 of January 16, 2015 (Federal Support for Local Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition), is hereby revoked.”
“the Senate confirmed 234 of Mr. Trump's nominees to the Article III courts, a figure that includes Gorsuch and two other Supreme Court justices, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett”
- The American Presidency Projecthttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-charlotte-convention-center-charlotte-north-carolina ↗
“Jobs, safety, opportunity. Fair and equal representation. This is what I promise to African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and all Americans. In my Administration, every American will be treated equally, protected equally, and honored equally.”
- Federal Bureau of Prisonshttps://www.bop.gov/inmates/fsa/overview.jsp ↗
“On December 21, 2018, President Trump signed into law the First Step Act (FSA) of 2018 (P.L. 115-391).”
“Black unemployment fell to a record low in August, helped by a jump in the number of black women on the job. The unemployment rate for black workers fell to 5.5% from 6%.”
- The American Presidency Projecthttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-accepting-the-presidential-nomination-the-republican-national-convention-cleveland ↗
“When I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order to our country. Believe me, believe me. I will work with, and appoint, the best and prosecutors and law enforcement officials to get the job properly done.”
- U.S. Senate roll call vote, Feb 14, 2019https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1161/vote_116_1_00024.htm ↗
“William Pelham Barr, of Virginia, to be Attorney General”
“Homicides and manslaughter jumped 29.4% from 2019 to 2020, the largest year-to-year spike since the federal government began tracking violent crime in the 1960s.”
- White House (archived), Mar 23, 2019https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-liberation-isis-controlled-territory/ ↗
“the United States has liberated all ISIS-controlled territory in Syria and Iraq—100 Percent of the “caliphate.””
- ABC News – Harris-Trump Presidential Debate Transcripthttps://abcnews.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 ↗
“Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. This is a radical left liberal that would do this.”
- CBS News (60 Minutes interview)https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-promises-pro-life-justices-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/ ↗
“It's irrelevant because it was already settled. It's law. I'm fine with that.”
- U.S. Department of Educationhttps://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-release-of-record-500-million-charter-schools-programs ↗
“The U.S. Department of Education (the Department) today announced the release of $500 million to the Charter Schools Programs, marking the largest investment in the program ever.”
- National Center for Education Statisticshttps://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=30 ↗
“Between fall 2010 and fall 2021, public charter school enrollment more than doubled, from 1.8 million to 3.7 million students—an overall increase of 1.9 million students.”
- p2016.org (Trump campaign speech archive)https://www.p2016.org/trump/trump061316sp.html ↗
“When I am President, I pledge to protect and defend all Americans who live inside of our borders. America will be a tolerant and open society. America will also be a safe society.”