President Donald Trump wasted no time signing an executive order Monday that aims to give him more control over the federal workforce – whom he has long vilified as the “deep state.”

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order declaring that it's policy of the federal government to only recognize "two sexes, male and female," reversing the ability of Americans to mark "other" or "X" on federal forms and causing sweeping implications in the way the federal government acknowledges gender.

Trump Signs Executive Order Recognizing Only Two Genders in the United States In a move that is igniting national debate, Donald Trump signs a new executive order. This order, formally recognizes only two genders—male and female—within the United States.