President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promises following his swearing-in ceremony on Monday, 20 January 2025, to kick off his second term in office with a tidal wave of executive orders.
While talk was still ongoing about Trump’s refusal to place his hand on the Bible to take his oath, the President wasted no time in carrying out his White House agenda with a series of executive orders. These ranged from securing America’s border to gender redefinition and pulling America out of the World Health Organisation (WHO), designed to prioritise American interests.
By signing 26 executive orders during his first day in office alone, Trump put himself on pace to rank among the fastest-acting presidents during his first 100 days in office.
Here are some of the executive orders, memoranda, and proclamations signed by President Trump;
Trump’s latest executive order has far-reaching implications for women, particularly in the realms of education, healthcare, and gender identity. At its core, the order, titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” seeks to promote a binary understanding of sex, defining “sex” as an individual’s “immutable biological classification as either male or female.”
This definition has significant implications for women’s access to education, healthcare, and other resources. For instance, the order mandates that schools and universities receiving federal funding must provide separate facilities and programs for people of all genders, based on their biological sex. Furthermore, critics argue that Trump’s executive orders will severely impact women’s healthcare. By promoting a binary understanding of sex, the order may limit access to healthcare services for women who do not conform to traditional notions of femininity.
The order also has significant implications for trans people, who may face increased discrimination and marginalisation as a result of the policy. As the order denies the existence of transgender individuals and erases their identities, individuals employed in the federal workforce, including over 15,000 trans people in the military, may lose their jobs. Since the government will only recognise a person as being the gender they were assigned at birth, transgender women will also be sent to men’s prisons.
In conclusion, Trump’s latest executive order has significant implications for women’s rights, particularly in the realms of education, healthcare, and gender identity, by limiting their access to basic rights and perpetuating discriminatory attitudes towards women.
Is Trump’s executive order binding?

The US president issues an executive order as a directive related to the running of the federal government. Although Congress does not need to approve executive orders, Congress and the courts can block them.
“Congress may pass legislation that might make it difficult, or even impossible, to carry out the order,” according to the American Bar Association.
Hence, all executive orders can be challenged in court for being unconstitutional.