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Ina Seethaler, Associate Professor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies, Coastal Carolina University

How Trump promotes a radical, unscientific theory about sex and gender in the name of opposing ‘gender ideology extremism’

Sexual diversity has been documented in every species in the animal kingdom, including among humans. smartboy10/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

The Trump administration claims to be rooting out “gender ideology extremism” and “restoring biological truth” in the United States.

In a January 2025 executive order, President Donald Trump decreed that there are only two genders – male and female – and that anyone who believes differently denies “the biological reality of sex.”

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