All recent presidents have employed executive orders to fulfil campaign promises and send signals to their supporters. Joe Biden has issued more executive orders in his first days in office than any modern president, and many of his orders have been employed to signal to those on the left of his party that he is listening to their concerns. Chief among them is his “Executive order on preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation”, which set off a Twitter firestorm with the hashtag #BidenErasedWomen. Organisations of the left committed to women’s rights have joined prominent voices on the right to condemn the new president’s move “to gut sex anti-discrimination laws and eliminate critical protections for women in the federal government”.
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