{"id":62039,"date":"2025-01-20T12:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=62039"},"modified":"2025-01-20T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:49:45","slug":"donald-trump-declared-controversial-gender-policy-during-his-inuagral-speech-as-the-47th-u-s-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/donald-trump-declared-controversial-gender-policy-during-his-inuagral-speech-as-the-47th-u-s-president\/62039\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump declared controversial gender policy during his inuagral speech as the 47th U.S. President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Donald J. Trump<\/strong> was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, 2025, marking a historic return to the White House as only the second leader in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms. However, his inaugural speech immediately drew sharp reactions for its definitive stance on gender identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders\u2014male and female,\u201d <strong>Trump<\/strong> declared to a crowd of supporters gathered at the U.S. Capitol. The statement signals a significant shift in federal policy, likely to ignite debates over LGBTQ+ rights and the broader cultural landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump\u2019s remarks reflect his administration\u2019s intent to roll back policies implemented under President Joe Biden, many of which expanded protections for transgender and nonbinary individuals. During his previous term, Trump faced criticism for banning transgender individuals from military service and rescinding guidance on transgender students\u2019 bathroom access in schools. His return to the presidency is expected to further embolden socially conservative policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the divisive rhetoric, Donald Trump\u2019s speech included a call for unity, asserting that his administration would \u201crespect all citizens\u201d while upholding what he described as \u201cbiological truths.\u201d Trump\u2019s stance reflects a broader cultural debate in the United States, where state legislatures have passed numerous laws targeting transgender rights in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders\u2014male and female,\u201d Trump declared to a crowd of supporters gathered at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":62046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,20312,24387,24390,1667,1671],"class_list":["post-62039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-lgbtq-representation","tag-u-s-capitol","tag-u-s-election-2024","tag-washington-d-c","tag-white-house"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}