18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable

Rescind regulations barring sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination

Partially done

Printed page 584 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies

“Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics. The President should direct agencies to rescind regulations interpreting sex discrimination provisions as prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, sex characteristics, etc.”

What has happened

Jul 14, 2026 Partially done
HHS's Administration for Children and Families finalized the removal of the 2024 Designated Placement Requirements Under Titles IV-E and IV-B for LGBTQI+ Children rule. The first regulation of the class the Quote names to be actually rescinded rather than proposed for rescission.
- HHS/ACF final rule: Designated Placement Requirements Under Titles IV-E and IV-B for LGBTQI+ Children; Rescission
  Primary Executive branch Jul 14, 2026
Apr 28, 2026 Attempted
HUD proposed to revise its Equal Access regulations to remove "gender" and "gender identity" or replace them with "sex" as Executive Order 14168 defines it. A proposed rule: the existing regulation still stands.
- HUD proposed rule: Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions (remove "gender identity" from HUD regulations)
  Primary Executive branch Apr 28, 2026
Jan 20, 2025 Attempted
Executive Order 14168 section 4(b) directed the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to "prepare and submit for notice and comment rulemaking a policy to rescind" the Equal Access rule, and section 3(b) told every agency to read sex-based terms in statutes, regulations and guidance as the order defines them. A direction to rescind, with no regulation yet changed.
- Executive Order 14168 — Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
  Primary Executive branch Jan 20, 2025

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

partial and not done: the class the Quote names is “regulations interpreting sex discrimination provisions” across the government. One has been rescinded (ACF), one is proposed (HUD), and the largest — HHS’s section 1557 rule and the Department of Education’s Title IX regulations — are not settled by any document in the Federal Register corpus for this window.
Federal Register corpus search on gender identity/sexual orientation across rules and proposed rules returns six documents in the window; the two above are the ones that rescind a sex-discrimination regulation. The other four are HHS disability-nondiscrimination proposals and the OFCCP Executive Order 11246 rescission, which belong to #1597 and #1598.

Action: rescind
Object: Regulations interpreting sex discrimination provisions
ID: 1602