Remove the word gender and related terms from agency materials
What the document says“It should remove all references, examples, definitions, photos, and language on USAID websites”
The chapter lists the terms to be removed as gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender diverse individuals, gender aware and gender sensitive, across websites, publications, policies, contracts and grants. It also asks that the Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment be renamed and that a presidential memorandum on gender in the program cycle be rescinded.
What the document actually says“It should remove all references, examples, definitions, photos, and language on USAID websites”
Take these words off the websites. Take out the pictures too.
The agency uses the word gender in its work. The book says that word should go. It wants it taken out of the website and papers.
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8615
Executive Order 14168 directs every agency to remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications and other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology and to stop issuing them, to use the term sex and not gender in all applicable federal policies and documents when administering sex based distinctions, and to ensure that grant funds do not promote gender ideology. That is the removal of material the chapter asks for, and it reaches the U.S. Agency for International Development as an executive agency. It is government wide and names neither the agency nor its websites, it turns on material that promotes gender ideology rather than on the vocabulary the chapter lists, which includes gender equality, gender equity, gender aware and gender sensitive, and it neither renames the Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment nor rescinds the presidential memorandum on gender in the program cycle.
The order tells every agency to pull forms and words that push gender ideas. Grant money may not push them either. That covers the aid agency, but the order names neither it nor its websites. It turns on material that pushes those ideas, not on the word list the book gives. And it renames no office.
Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign Assistance
2026-01-27 · 91 FR 3332
The State Department's final rule of January 27, 2026 adds an award term, Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign Assistance, to grants, cooperative agreements and voluntary contributions, imposing requirements relating to gender ideology on foreign and United States nongovernmental organizations, international organizations, foreign governments and parastatals, and incorporating the term into awards as new funds are added. Contracts and grants are among the places the chapter asks that the language be removed. The rule conditions what a recipient may do with the money rather than removing terms from the agency's own websites, publications and policies, it is a State Department rule rather than an act of the agency the chapter addresses, and this site holds the rule's summary rather than the text of the award term, so what the term requires word for word cannot be checked here.
A State Department rule of January 27, 2026 adds a new term to aid grants. It puts rules on gender ideology on the groups that take the money. Grants are one place the chapter wanted such words dropped. But the rule sets terms for spending, not what is on the agency's own web pages.
12 agency rules
- Terminology Relating to Sex; Technical AmendmentsHomeland Security Department, Office of the Secretary, Transportation Security Administration · May 21, 2025
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and AffordabilityHealth and Human Services Department · June 25, 2025
- Wake Island CodeDefense Department · July 24, 2025
- Litigation; AmendmentDefense Department, Army Department · August 8, 2025
- Medicare and Medicaid Programs; CY 2026 Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B Payment and Coverage Policies; Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements; and Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate ProgramHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · November 5, 2025
- Identification (ID) Cards for Members of the Uniformed Services, Their Dependents, and Other Eligible Individuals; AmendmentDefense Department, Office of the Secretary · December 1, 2025
- Recruitment and Relocation Incentive WaiversPersonnel Management Office · December 15, 2025
- Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance RulesState Department · January 27, 2026
- Protecting Life in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Visas: Enhancing Vetting and Combatting Fraud in the Diversity Immigrant Visa ProgramState Department · March 11, 2026
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2027; and Basic Health ProgramHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Secretary · May 20, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.