President Trump signed a sweeping executive order late Monday during his first hours in office recognizing only two sexes and preventing government dollars from being spent on what his administration called “gender ideology.”

The executive order is part of a broader campaign promise to roll back trans rights and diversity and inclusion initiatives instituted by the Biden administration that Republicans argued went too far.

Here are five takeaways on Trump’s action.

It covers a lot of ground

Trump’s executive order is sweeping and at times vague, posing some questions about how it will be implemented.

The order, which pledges to restore “biological truth to the federal government,” defines male and female not by physical or chromosomal differences but by reproductive function.

Federal agencies should use the term “sex” instead of “gender,” according to the order, and remove statements, policies, and communications that “promote gender ideology,” which it defines in part as “an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity.”

Federal funds “shall not be used to promote gender ideology,” the order states.

It directs the secretaries of State and Homeland Security to prevent trans people from self-selecting their gender on official government documents such as visas and passports, which the State Department first allowed in 2021.

Trump’s order does not explicitly address passports with an “unspecified” gender marker, denoted by a single letter X, which the department began rolling out in 2022.

Monday’s executive order........

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