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Gender is not an ideology – but conservative groups know learning about it empowers people to think for themselves
Trump’s executive order has led to bans on acknowledging more than two sexes in education, with legal challenges and international anti-gender campaigns involving 40 countries.
- On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring there are two sexes determined solely by reproductive cells and banning federal funds to 'promote gender ideology'.
- Citing the executive order, conservative and right‑wing politicians and activists have used it to press for censorship of curricula in K‑12 and higher education, succeeding in Texas, Florida and other red states.
- Scientific studies show sex involves genes, reproductive organs and hormones and is not always binary, while sociologists who study gender note assigned sex at birth can differ from gender identity across cultures and eras.
- State lawmakers enacting bills seek to ban gender and sexuality discussions, criminalize abortion, and bar gender‑affirming care, reshaping curricula and affecting transgender and gender‑diverse students plus faculty and educators.
- About 40 countries have signed the Geneva Consensus Declaration, backed by conservative Catholics and the Vatican, opposing gender ideology in global policy.
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Gender is not an ideology – but conservative groups know learning about it empowers people to think for themselves
From book bans and firing teachers to taking over university administrations altogether, right-wing politicians and activists worldwide have been keen on rooting out gender from schools. Why is that?
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Total News Sources41
Leaning Left6Leaning Right10Center12Last UpdatedBias Distribution43% Center
Bias Distribution
- 43% of the sources are Center
43% Center
L 21%
C 43%
R 36%
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