Will President Joe Biden's Executive Order erase women's rights?

Feminist Current

Last month, on inauguration day, President Biden signed the “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” Women across the United States and around the world reacted with anger. This meant, they feared, the erasure of women’s sex-based rights. But the language and impacts of the order are difficult to decipher, for a layperson. In order to clarify, Meghan Murphy speaks with Lauren Adams, legal director of Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), a US-based women-only organization dedicated to the total liberation of women and girls.

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