OPM directs agencies to rescind remaining gender-identity-related workplace policies
- Date
- Actor
- Office of Personnel Management
- Type
- Guidance/memo
Summary
OPM issues a memorandum directing all federal departments and agencies to identify and revoke remaining policies, programs, and guidance recognizing gender identity — including anti-discrimination policy statements, facilities-access policies, and gendered-language guidance predating EO 14168 — and to document compliance by August 11, 2025. The memo completes the removal of trans-inclusive personnel policies (many dating to 2015–2024) across the civilian workforce.
Status
In effect; agencies reported compliance in August 2025. (Primary memo: OPM memorandum to heads and acting heads of departments and agencies, dated July 10, 2025, transmitted via CHCOC, directing agencies to report compliance to OPM by August 11, 2025.)
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Memorandum from Charles Ezell, Acting Dir., Off. of Pers. Mgmt., to Heads & Acting Heads of Departments & Agencies, Updated Guidance Regarding Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (July 10, 2025), https://www.opm.gov/chcoc/transmittals/2025/Defending%20Women%20Guidance%20Memo%207-10-2025.pdf.
Short form: Memorandum from Charles Ezell, Acting Dir., Off. of Pers. Mgmt., to Heads & Acting Heads of Departments & Agencies, Updated Guidance Regarding Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (July 10, 2025), https://www.opm.gov/chcoc/transmittals/2025/Defending%20Women%20Guidance%20Memo%207-10-2025.pdf.