Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, among the many attacks on the rights of parents in recent years, the National Institute

of Health placed sexually confused youth under the care of so-called transgender and gender minority

mentors. The Department of Defense promoted trans ideology to elementary-age school kids on American

military basis.

A federally funded 4-H group instituted a policy to assigned sleeping arrangements in an

overnight camp based on a child's so-called gender identity and did that without notifying parents.

And that's just a few of the ways that government officials, medical professionals,

and educational activists maneuvered legally to have the final word over and above parents.

Well, thankfully, there's now a reprie from this onslaught on family rights and open window

of opportunity, you might say, to stand up for children

and for parents and for families. Even those who are not fans of the Trump administration should

be grateful for an executive order signed on the very first day in office pushing back on

radical gender ideology that was being widely promoted and applied by various government

agencies under President Biden.

As Ryan Bangerd of the Alliance Defending Freedom described it, quote,

President Trump's new order is clear.

It states that it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.

While this seems so obvious that it should need to be said,

it's paramount given the Biden-Harris administration's attempt to include

so-called gender identity under the definition of sex. On that front, the executive order

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