Trump signs order restricting race and sex stereotyping training

President Donald Trump signs Executive Order 13950 on September 22, 2020, titled “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping.” The order restricts federal agencies, contractors, and grant recipients from using certain training concepts about race and sex.\n\nThe order says some trainings promote divisive ideas, including claims that the United States is fundamentally racist or sexist. Critics argue that the order chills workplace training about systemic racism and discrimination.\n\nThe event is important because it is an early federal version of the anti-critical-race-theory and anti-DEI politics that later spreads through state legislatures, school boards, and federal policy debates.