PR: NC Values Praises President Trump’s Executive Orders that Stop Gender Madness

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 29th, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
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NC VALUES PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT STOP GENDER MADNESS

“We are extremely grateful to President Trump for the actions he has taken to curb the transgender madness and restore sanity, science, and safety to American society,” said NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. Since taking office nine days ago, Trump has signed three separate Executive Orders aimed at protecting women, children, and society at large from the harmful effects of gender ideology. NC Values Coalition has been on the front lines of this issue for 9 years, and having the President’s support is extremely helpful to our continued efforts here in North Carolina.

One of NC Values’ top legislative priorities in 2025 is to protect girls and women from the harmful effects of transgender policies that allow men to identify as women and thereby rob them of their dignity, safe spaces, protection under non-discrimination laws, and distinctiveness as women. “North Carolina must stop the gender insanity and return to the common sense understanding that men are men, women are women, and men do not belong in women’s private spaces. Trans- affirming policies harm women and girls, put children on the front lines of the gender confusion battle, and create chaos in general,” said Fitzgerald.

Background: The Executive Order Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government says the Federal government only recognizes two sexes—male and female—and goes on to describe the sexes as immutable categories determined at conception by biology. It also prevents men from using women’s private spaces including bathrooms and locker rooms.

We appreciate that the Executive Order Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness not only contains a directive for the Pentagon to determine a policy for transgender service members, but also prohibits men from using women’s private spaces in military facilities.

Yesterday Trump signed the order titled Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation which says that the federal government will not fund, promote, or support chemical and surgical mutilation for the purpose of transitioning a person under 19 years of age from one sex to the other sex for. It goes on to say that these treatments leave the children with costly medical bills, regret, and sometime result in sterility. The executive order also directs the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end chemical and surgical mutilation of children. In addition, the Secretary of HHS is instructed to end chemical and surgical mutilation of children through HHS programs, and the Department of Defense is instructed to end chemical and surgical mutilation of children in the TriCare system.

NC Values played a pivotal role in ending gender affirming care for minors in North Carolina when the Republican-led General Assembly enacted a law barring medical professionals from providing hormone therapy, puberty-blockers and gender-transition surgeries to anyone under 18 in 2023.  President Trump’s executive order carries this out at the federal level.

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