Donald Trump has already signed a flurry of executive orders in the first 24 hours of being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
After taking the reigns from outgoing leader Joe Biden, the 78-year-old Republican leader wasted no time in signing off several executive orders, including one which states there are ‘only two genders’.
What are executive orders?
In short, executive orders are legally-binding written orders to the federal government that do not require congressional approval.
Presidents often issue orders to cancel the orders of their predecessors and Trump was no exception as he rescinded 78 orders and actions signed by his Democrat predecessor, Biden.
Many of Trump’s measures are likely to draw Democratic opposition.
Donald Trump said ‘there are only two genders, male and female’, during his inaugural address (Anna Moneymaker / Staff / Getty Images)
What has Trump said about the LGBTQ+ community?
“As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,” Trump said during his inaugural address.
The policy reads, in part: “Agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination.
“These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
The order will also bring to an end ‘wasteful’ government programmes which promote diversity and inclusivity, as well as ‘defending women from gender ideology extremism’.
Trump promised to order all federal agencies to end programmes that ‘promote … gender transition at any age’ (Alexander Spatari / Getty Images)
What does Trump’s order mean for the LGBTQ+ community?
Prior to Monday’s ceremony (20 January), Trump promised to order all federal agencies to end programmes that ‘promote … gender transition at any age’, and pledged to cut funding from hospitals providing gender-affirming care.
He also promised that federal law would rule that the US government not legally recognise trans people and rescind federal LGBTQ+ non-discrimination policies, like housing, healthcare and employment.
Trump, who has also called for new credentialing for teachers to ‘promote positive education about the nuclear family, the roles of mothers and fathers’, as per the Guardian, has five children with three different women.
Trump’s order could have a seriously detrimental affect on trans people (Pool / Pool / Getty Images)
What are the 72 genders?
According to MedicineNet, there are 72 other genders beside male and female which include the following:
- Agender: A person who does not identify themselves with or experience any gender. Agender people are also called null-gender, genderless, gendervoid, or neutral gender.
- Abimegender: Associated with being profound, deep, and infinite. The term abimegender may be used alone or in combination with other genders.
- Adamas gender: A gender that is indefinable or indomitable. People identifying with this gender refuse to be categorized in any particular gender identity.
- Aerogender: Also called evaisgender, this gender identity changes according to one’s surroundings.
- Aesthetigender: Also called aesthetgender, it is a type of gender identity derived from aesthetics.
- Affectugender: This is based on the person’s mood swings or fluctuations.
- Agenderflux: A person with this gender identity is mostly agender with brief shifts of belonging to other gender types.
- Alexigender: The person has a fluid gender identity between more than one type of gender although they cannot name the genders they feel fluid in.
- Aliusgender: This gender identity stands apart from existing social gender constructs. It means having a strong specific gender identity that is neither male nor female.
- Amaregender: Having a gender identity that changes depending on the person one is emotionally attached to.
- Ambigender: Having two specific gender identities simultaneously without any fluidity or fluctuations.
- Ambonec: The person identifies themselves as both man and woman and yet does not belong to either.
- Amicagender: A gender-fluid identity where a person changes their gender depending on the friends they have.
- Androgyne: A person feels a combination of feminine and masculine genders.
- Anesigender: The person feels close to a specific type of gender despite being more comfortable in closely identifying themselves with another gender.
- Angenital: The person desires to be without any primary sexual characteristics although they do not identify themselves as genderless.
- Anogender: The gender identity fades in and out in intensity but always comes back to the same gendered feeling.
- Anongender: The person has a gender identity but does not label it or would prefer to not have a label.
- Antegender: A protean gender that can be anything but is formless and motionless.
- Anxiegender: This gender identity has anxiety as its prominent characteristic.
- Apagender: The person has apathy or a lack of feelings toward one’s gender identity.
- Apconsugender: It means knowing what are not the characteristics of gender but not knowing what are its characteristics. Thus, a person hides its primary characteristics from the individual.
- Astergender: The person has a bright and celestial gender identity.
- Astral gender: Having a gender identity that feels to be related to space.
- Autigender: Having a gender identity that feels to be closely related to being autistic.
- Autogender: Having a gender experience that is deeply connected and personal to oneself.
- Axigender: A gender identity that is between the two extremes of agender and any other type of gender. Both the genders are experienced one at a time without any overlapping. The two genders are described as on the opposite ends of an axis.
- Bigender: Having two gender identities at the same or different times.
- Biogender: Having a gender that is closely related to nature.
- Blurgender: Also called gender fuss, blurgender means having more than one gender identities that blur into each other so that no particular type of gender identity is clear.
- Boyflux: The person identifies themselves as male, but they experience varying degrees of male identity. This may range from feeling agender to completely male.
- Burstgender: Frequent bursts of intense feelings quickly move to the initial calm stage.
- Caelgender: This gender identity shares the qualities or aesthetics of outer space.
- Cassgender: It is associated with the feelings of considering the gender irrelevant or unimportant.
- Cassflux: There is a fluctuating intensity of irrelevance toward gender.
- Cavusgender: The person feels close to one gender when depressed and to another when not depressed.
- Cendgender: The gender identity changes from one gender to its opposite.
- Ceterogender: It is a nonbinary gender where the person has a specific masculine, feminine or neutral feelings.
- Ceterofluid: Although the person is a ceterogender, their identity keeps fluctuating between different genders.
- Cisgender: Being closely related to the gender assigned at birth during the entire life.
- Cloudgender: The person’s gender cannot be comprehended or understood due to depersonalization and derealization disorder.
- Collgender: Various genders are present at the same time in the individual.
- Colorgender: In this category, colors are used to describe gender, for example, pink gender or black gender.
- Commogender: The person knows that they are not cisgender yet continues to identify as one for a while.
- Condigender: The person feels their gender only under specific circumstances.
- Deliciagender: Associated with the feeling of having multiple genders but preferring one over the other.
- Demifluid: Having multiple genders, some fluid while others are static.
- Demiflux: A combination of multiple genders with some genders static, whereas others fluctuating in intensity.
- Demigender: The individual has partial traits of one gender and the rest of the other gender.
- Domgender: The individual has multiple genders with one dominating over the rest.
- Duragender: Having more than one gender with one lasting longer than the others.
- Egogender: It is a personal type of gender identified by the individual alone. It is based on the person’s experience within the self.
- Epicene: It is associated with a strong feeling of not being able to relate to any of the two genders of the binary gender or both of the binary gender characteristics.
- Esspigender: The individual relates their gender identity with spirits.
- Exgender: The denial to identify with any gender on the gender spectrum.
- Existigender: The person’s gender identity exists only when they make conscious efforts to realize it.
- Femfluid: The person is fluid or fluctuating regarding the feminine genders.
- Femgender: A nonbinary gender identity that is feminine.
- Fluidflux: It means to be fluid between two or more genders with a fluctuation in the intensity of those genders.
- Gemigender: The person has two genders that are opposite yet they flux and work together.
- Genderblank: It is closely related to a blank space.
- Genderflow: The gender identity is fluid between infinite feelings.
- Genderfluid: The person does not consistently adhere to one fixed gender and may have many genders.
- Genderfuzz: More than one gender is blurred together.
- Genderflux: The gender fluctuates in intensity.
- Genderpuck: The person resists to fit in societal norms concerning genders.
- Genderqueer: The individual blurs the preconceived boundaries of gender in relation to the gender binary or having just one gender type.
- Gender witched: The person is inclined toward the notion of having one gender but does not know which.
- Girlflux: The individual identifies themselves as a female but with varying intensities of female identities.
- Healgender: A gender identity that gives the person peace, calm, and positivity.
- Mirrorgender: Changing one’s gender type based on the people surrounding.
- Omnigender: Having or experiencing all genders.
However, MedicalNewsToday outlines: “There is no fixed number of gender identities. They occur on a spectrum, which really means that the possibilities are infinite.
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Uniqlo drops its latest designer collab with JW Anderson – and it’s set to fly off shelves
The prices are purse-friendly too
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Uniqlo has just dropped its latest designer collection and it’s good news for our January bank accounts, with prices starting at just £20.
Renowned for its sell-out collaborations (recent fashion heavyweights include Anya Hindmarch and Clare Waight Keller) the high street giant has announced the launch of a new JW Anderson collection, and we can’t wait to shop it all.
The designer collab will land online and in-store today (Thursday January 16), with a focus on the long-awaited transition into spring.
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According to Uniqlo, the capsule collection is designed to add a preppy modern twist to everyday classics, whether you’re after a pair of investment jeans or cosy loungewear to see you through the rest of winter.
Guaranteed to make heading back to the office something to look forward to, the unisex collection has a preppy feel with rugby shirts and Oxford tailoring that feel bang on trend.
But you’ll need to move fast. If previous collections are anything to go by, nothing will stay on the shelf for long. See you at the checkout?
Shop our top JW Anderson x Uniqlo picks below:
Oxford boxy stripe shirt, £29.90
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JW Anderson does tailoring extremely well, so a shirt is a great place to start. You can’t go wrong with a classic striped number and this boasts a boxy fit that’s easy to style for work and play. Wear with jeans and a knit thrown over the top, you’re good to go.
Polo t-shirt, £34.90
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Undoubtedly one of winter’s biggest trends, the polo shirt has undergone a stylish upgrade. There are a couple to choose from in this collab, but the pink is the most fun.
Straight jeans, £34.90
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The best part of the collection by a mile? The jeans. They come in a classic straight silhouette with short and long lengths on offer, so that you can find the perfect fit. With prices starting at £34.90, this is the first place we’ll be heading.
Denim cap, £19.90
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One of the most affordable accessories available in the collection is the unisex denim cap. We predict a sell-out, so move fast if you’re keen.
Drawstring bag, £24.90
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Aside from solid tailoring, JW Anderson is also renowned for well-made accessories. We give you the drawstring bag, available in four classic colours. The hardest part? Choosing one.
Crew neck sweatshirt, £34.90
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If your loungewear has taken some beating over winter and you’re in need of a refresh, then look no further than this crew neck sweatshirt. It comes in four colours and is made from premium 100% cotton. The best part? You can chuck it into the washing machine without worrying about the risk of shrinking.
The Uniqlo x JW Anderson is available to shop online and in-store now.
Visit the Uniqlo website to shop the new JW Anderson collaboration now (before it sells out).
It’s only been three days since Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president of the United States, and he’s already made every American technically female with a seriously controversial new order.
The 78-year-old Republican leader signed a series of executive orders in his first 24 hours in the role – one of which states there are ‘only two genders’.
“As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,” Trump said during his inaugural address.
The policy reads, in part: “Agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination.
“These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
This means that transgender, non-binary, intersex, and two-spirit individuals would no longer be recognised.
The order will also bring to an end ‘wasteful’ government programmes which promote diversity and inclusivity, as well as ‘defending women from gender ideology extremism’.
Trump, who has also called for new credentialing for teachers to ‘promote positive education about the nuclear family, the roles of mothers and fathers’, as per the Guardian, has five children with three different women.
Donald Trump said ‘there are only two genders, male and female’, during his inaugural address (Anna Moneymaker / Staff / Getty Images)
However, the order, which is a total affront to trans and other LGBTQ+ rights and protections, also includes a section with definitions that simply do not align with very basic biology.
The order claims that ‘female means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell’ while ‘male means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell’.
“It’s especially egregious that this order defines ‘sex’ as starting ‘at conception,’ which is impossible,” says Ash Lazarus Orr, press relations manager at Advocates for Trans Equality.
“While it’s possible to know chromosomal information, human embryos don’t show sexual differentiation at that stage — and all embryos initially develop along ‘female’ lines until later in development.”
So, by the definition mapped out in the executive order, all Americans are female.
Trump’s executive order declared that all Americans are female (Andrew Harnik / Staff / Getty Images)
Orr told Rolling Stone: “This obsessive focus on ‘sex at conception’ – something that can’t even be determined — reveals the administration’s anti-science stance and its commitment to spreading falsehoods about how sex and gender actually function.”
Deleware Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, told the Independent: “Well, it appears that he just declared everyone a woman from conception based on the language of the executive order.”
Tyla has reached out to the White House press office for comment.
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Writing in her memoir published last October, titled Melania: A Memoir, the soon-to-be First Lady opened up about her relationship with the Republican president-elect, who will officially assume the title on Monday (20 January) at his inauguration ceremony.
Melania recalled the moment she first met Trump, who will become the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency, in a New York City nightclub.
She recalled that fateful encounter which took place at the Kit Kat Klub in New York City during Fashion Week.
At the time, Trump was newly separated from his second wife, Marla Maples, while Slovenian-born model Melania had recently moved to the States to pursue her career.
Trump and his ‘attractive blonde’ date came to greet Melania at a table in the VIP section and, despite being on a date with another woman, he asked his future wife for her number.
She, however, declined and instead asked him to give her his number.
Melania ended up calling him a few days after their first meet and eventually the pair went on their first date at his Seven Springs property in Bedford, New York.
Melania Trump first met Donald in a NYC nightclub in 1998 (Steve Granitz / Contributor / Getty Images)
Opening up on the interaction, Melania, 54, outlined the two attributes of the 78-year-old she was most ‘captivated’ by
“From the moment our conversation began, I was captivated by his charm and easygoing nature,” she wrote in the memoir.
Melania previously opened up about the meeting in a 2016 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, recalling: “He wanted my number, but he was with a date, so of course I didn’t give it to him.”
Clearly unimpressed with the move, she then reportedly told him: “I am not giving you my number; you give me yours, and I will call you.
“I wanted to see if it was a business number. What if it’s business?”
Trump responded by offering Melania all his numbers which caught her attention, and she was soon struck by his alleged ‘vitality’ and ‘energy’.
The Republican leader proposed to Melania at the 2004 Met Gala (Evan Agostini / Staff / Getty Images)
The pair continued to date and, after several years together, Trump proposed at the 2004 Met Gala.
They then tied the knot the following year at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate before welcoming their first son together, Barron, in 2006.
Melania has previously made a bold statement ahead of Trump’s return to power.
She told FOX News: “Maybe some people see me as just a wife of the President, but I’m standing on my own two feet, independent, I have my own thoughts, I have my own ‘yes’ and ‘no.'”
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Today (20 January), Donald Trump will become president of the USA, but what does this mean for women’s rights?
Trump’s inauguration ceremony is due to take place today, making him the 47th president of the United States.
His election win will affect a number of demographics, but there is particular concern regarding his views towards women, namely surrounding reproductive rights.
As he becomes the first convicted felon to serve as president in the US – accused of sexual assault and harassment by dozens – what does this mean for the women of America?
Trump on the abortion ban
What will Trump’s presidency mean for women? (Guy Smallman/Getty Images)
His first term in office offers some clues as to what Trump could do in his second term, and a federal restriction on abortion is not yet ruled out.
Since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, which generally protected a woman’s right to have an abortion, multiple states made abortions completely illegal.
These include Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.
During is term as president from 2017-2021, he supported a House bill that would have banned abortion nationwide after 20 weeks.
Despite this, there have been inconsistencies in his view on abortion rights.
During the final stages of his campaign in 2024, Trump said he thought individual states should determine their own abortion policies.
Trump and Project 2025
Trump is set to become president today (20 January). (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Known as the ‘right wing wish-list’, Project 2025 was created by the Heritage Foundation, one of Washington’s most prominent right-wing research institutions.
And while Trump previously denied his support for the project, dozens of former officials from Trump’s last administration – including many whomay be called to serve in his current one – contributed to the proposals laid out in the project.
Some of the proposals include withdrawing the abortion pill mifepristone from the market, increasing the funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border, cutting federal money for research and investment into renewable energy, and more.
Trump on women’s healthcare
As well as abortion rights, general medical care for women in America could be seriously under threat.
There is currently an alarming increase in maternal mortality rates.
The Commonwealth fund reported: “In 2022, there were 22 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in the US – more than double, sometimes triple, the rate for most other high-income countries in this analysis.”
In response, Nancy L. Cohen, president of the Gender Equity Policy Institute, stated: “There’s only one explanation for this…all the research points to Texas’ abortion ban as the primary driver of this alarming increase.”
