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Trump official said it was fitting that the administration was taking measures on the King holiday to reinstitute equal treatment by eliminating racial preferences and diversity programming

Zach Montague is a Times reporter covering the US Department of Education the White House and federal courts

Trump touched on the theme in his address again raising a recent promise to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America and proposing to officially rename North America’s tallest peak Mount McKinley after its name had been changed to Denali its Alaska Native name under President Barack Obama in 2015

Trump indicated on Monday that the enforcement power of the Education Department would be critical to bringing change to the nation’s schools

Order directs his attorney general to release guidance stating that a Supreme Court decision in 2020 that cemented stronger civil rights protections to transgender workers does not apply to schools and their students echoing a ruling by a federal judge earlier this month

Linda McMahon met with senators at the Capitol in December

Biden ordered agencies to take sweeping steps to address inequity in housing criminal justice voting rights health care education and economic mobility

Trump said all of this will change starting today and it will change very quickly

He extended those directions to schools and students last year

On first day of his presidency in 2021 Mr Biden took an essentially opposite position directing agencies to include sexual orientation and gender identity in any regulations and policies covering workplace discrimination formalizing protections for LGBTQ workers

His actions on Monday are also aimed at bringing back biological truth to federal government according to a Trump official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the orders before they were signed

Order also prohibits use of federal funds for promoting gender ideology through grants or other government programming as well as use of public funding for transition related medical procedures in prisons

Government will also eliminate references to gender identity in policy documents and will order that government issued documents including passports and visas accurately reflect one’s biological sex

Trump official said changes were all aimed at promoting privacy and safety of women who the official said had suffered under attempts to cater to transgender workers and students

Directive instructs agencies to protect intimate single sex spaces such as prisons and rape shelters by denying access to transgender women

Elements of Mr Trump’s orders were written to explicitly target education institutions rolling back actions taken during the Biden administration that extended protections under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 incoming officials told reporters on Monday

We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based Mr Trump said

In his Inaugural Address on Monday Mr Trump vowed to stop efforts to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life

They call for ending DEI programs and termination of all discriminatory programs in government including federal employment practices

Actions effectively shut down programs and practices aimed at reversing decades of systemic inequities and discriminatory practices that have disproportionately affected Black people and other underserved communities