Bar agencies from withholding services over the definition of sex
What the document says“The next Administration should prohibit the USDA or any other federal agency from withholding services”
The full passage covers agencies withholding services from federal or state agencies, including schools, that choose not to replace sex with sexual orientation and gender identity in their administration of Title IX. It follows the chapter's request that school meal program rules be reviewed.
What the document actually says“The next Administration should prohibit the USDA or any other federal agency from withholding services”
No agency should be able to cut off services over this.
Some agencies asked schools to change how they read the word sex. Schools that refused risked losing help. The book says that should not be allowed.
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8615
Executive Order 14168 removes the federal premise the chapter is objecting to. Every agency must enforce laws governing sex based rights, protections, opportunities and accommodations to protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes, must give the terms sex, male and female the order's meanings when interpreting statutes, regulations and guidance, and the Attorney General is directed to correct the application of Bostock v. Clayton County to sex based distinctions in agency activities, with Title IX named. A school that keeps a biological definition of sex in administering Title IX is no longer at odds with the federal position. It is not the prohibition the chapter asks for. No provision bars an agency from withholding services over the definition of sex, the Department of Agriculture and the school meal programs are not mentioned, and the conditioning of federal money on a definition of sex continues in the other direction, since Executive Order 14201 directs agencies to review grants to educational programs and rescind funding where they do not comply with its sex based policy.
The order tells every agency to treat men and women as two distinct sexes. A school that keeps that meaning no longer clashes with the federal rule. But no clause bars an agency from cutting off services over it. Farm aid and school meals are not named. And another order still ties school grants to its own sex rule.
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.