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- The White House celebrated President Donald Trump’s ‘decisive victory’ against policies supporting trans Americans in an announcement on Tuesday that coincided with the International Transgender Day of Visibility
- The second Trump administration has broadly sought to unravel protections for transgender people and invalidate trans identities
- The White House’s announcement criticized former President Joe Biden’s proclamation for Trans Day of Visibility in 2024, which happened to fall on Easter Sunday
President Donald Trump’s White House celebrated his second administration’s efforts to roll back rights and protections for transgender Americans in an announcement that coincided with the International Transgender Day of Visibility on Tuesday, March 31.
The White House commended the president’s “bold actions” against “gender ideology” in a news release titled “President Trump Ended Democrats’ ‘Transgender for Everybody’ Insanity.”
“Under President Trump, the era of government-sanctioned delusion is over,” the White House said.
The announcement touted Trump’s executive orders to recognize only two “unchangeable” sexes and bar hospitals from providing gender-affirming medical care to patients younger than 19. Federal judges have blocked parts of Trump’s order involving hospitals, but dozens have ceased care anyway, fearing a revocation of federal dollars that would make it nearly impossible to operate.
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The White House also lauded Trump’s order to ban transgender women from female sports teams, a directive that ultimately led the NCAA and the International Olympic Committee to prohibit trans athletes from participating in women’s athletics, and another order preventing trans and gender-nonconforming Americans from obtaining passports that match their gender identity.
The administration also celebrated Trump’s orders to ban transgender people from serving openly in the military and terminate federal support for trans-inclusive school curricula.
“These bold actions have shattered years of Democrat extremism, rescued a generation of children from irreversible harm, restored biological truth, and reclaimed America’s commitment to fairness, science, and sanity,” the White House said on Tuesday.
International Transgender Day of Visibility, recognized globally for more than a decade, celebrates the lives and contributions of transgender people. The celebration is also drawing attention to disproportionate levels of hardship and discrimination the community faces, according to GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy group.
Its annual observation drew outsized attention from prominent conservatives, including Trump, when former President Joe Biden issued a presidential proclamation recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility in 2024. That year, the cultural awareness celebration, recognized annually on March 31, coincided with Easter Sunday, Christianity’s holiest day.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, then a spokesperson for Trump’s presidential campaign, demanded Biden apologize for the proclamation, which called on Americans to uplift “the lives and voices of transgender people” and “work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.”
Addressing the outrage, Trump pledged to make Nov. 5, the date of the 2024 presidential election, “Christian Visibility Day.”
“What the hell was Biden thinking when he declared Easter Sunday to be Trans Visibility Day?” Trump said during a rally in Green Bay, Wis., at the time. “Such total disrespect to Christians.”
The White House pointed to Biden’s 2024 proclamation in its announcement on Tuesday.
“Two years ago today, the Biden Administration desecrated Easter Sunday with a ‘transgender’ message that elevated radical leftist ideology over faith, family, and biological truth,” the White House said. “This Easter season, the Trump Administration is celebrating a decisive victory: the swift and unrelenting dismantling of subversive, woke policies that endangered children, eroded women’s rights, assaulted common sense, and dragged America toward moral and cultural decline.”
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