President Trump recently enacted several executive orders to reduce the use of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (“DEIA”) programs and policies by organizations that receive federal funding, grants, and/or contracts. These orders include:

• Executive Order No. 14151—Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing: Ends the provision of federal “equity related” grants and contracts as well as DEI/DEIA employee performance requirements for contractors and grantees.
• Executive Order No. 14168—Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government: Orders agencies to end federal funding of “gender ideology,” which the Order defines as a “replace[ment] [for] the biological category of sex” and an “ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity
  . . . [which] all institutions . . . [must] regard . . . as true.”
• Executive Order 14173—Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity: Conditions the receipt of federal contracts and grants on a certification from recipients that they do not operate DEI/DEIA programs.
• Executive Order 14187—Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation: Prevents the provision of federal research or education grants to medical institutions that provide permanent and semi-permanent gender-affirming procedures.
• Executive Order 14201—Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports: Prevents the...

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