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This is a Presidential Proclamation (Proclamation 10900, signed March 6, 2025) — a ceremonial statement, not a law or regulation. Its single operative action is to officially name March 2025 as “Women’s History Month” and to call on all Americans to celebrate the women in their lives and communities.
The proclamation itself changes no law; its only formal effect is the designation of the month. The rest of the text describes actions the Administration says it already took separately, by executive order: recognizing sex as biologically male or female, ending the “X” gender marker on government forms, and issuing U.S. passports only with an “M” or “F” marker matching sex at birth. It also states that a signed executive order directed the Department of Education and other agencies to bring Title IX enforcement actions against federally funded schools and states that do not limit women’s sports to female athletes, and it says the NCAA (cited as representing 530,000 student-athletes) and state athletic associations changed their policies in response. The document presents these as accomplished measures rather than new directives issued by this proclamation.
As a proclamation, its direct reach is symbolic and nationwide — it addresses all Americans and asks them to mark the month. The separate actions it references would affect people applying for passports or government forms, and federally funded schools, states, athletic associations, and student-athletes covered by Title IX, though those effects flow from the cited executive orders rather than from this document.