The National Women’s Law Center led a letter from over 170 organizations who advocate for and support gender justice and women’s rights to President Trump condemning his day one Executive Order 14166, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The order, which directs the federal government to regulate, control, and police gender, does absolutely nothing to protect women and girls. We know that the true intent of this order is to demonize, stigmatize, and discriminate against transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people and to enforce gender roles and gender stereotypes.

As advocacy groups with long histories of advocating for and supporting the rights of women and girls, we unequivocally affirm that transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, including women and girls, deserve the same basic rights and respect as everyone else. Far from “protecting” women from any real threat, the order actively endangers women, including both cisgender and transgender women. Read the full letter here