President Donald Trump’s sweeping orders to end the government’s diversity, equity and inclusion effort mark a sea change for the country.

Trump plans to sign an executive order directing the federal government to recognize only two sexes, male and female, and treat them as biologically distinct and unchangeable from birth. The order would stop federal employees from using the term “gender.” Trump, however, used the term during his inaugural address on Monday afternoon.

Two major U.S. state bar associations have pushed back after President Donald Trump took aim at efforts to promote more diversity in the legal profession. Trump in an executive order on Tuesday included state and local bar associations as targets for federal civil probes into private-sector diversity,

The Trump executive order seeks to dissuade private companies that receive government contracts from using DEI programs and hiring on the basis of race and gender.

President Trump’s directive on Tuesday placing all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion staffers on leave before they’re eventually laid off has reignited the debate around DEI initiatives. The move Tuesday followed a related executive order from Trump accusing former President Joe Biden of forcing “discrimination” programs into “virtually all aspects of the federal government” through “diversity,