- On Inauguration Day,

Kamala Harris embodiedwhat girls and women

across the country have long dreamed,

a woman Vice-President.

Hours later however,

President Biden signed an executive order

that crushed girls and women's rights.

Using detailed explicit language,

he ordered the children beallowed access to the restroom,

locker room, and sportsteam of their choosing.

Their gender, now describedas gender identity,

would have no consequence.

- It's turning equality upside down.

The entire reason we have

separate male and femalelocker rooms and sports teams

is that people with male and female bodies

should have a certainamount of privacy and safety

and fairness in competition.

LGBTQ advocates say theorder supports equality

and ends discrimination

against people whoidentify as transgender,

but conservatives and somefeminists have been crying foul

using the hashtag #BidenErasedWomen.

The Women's LiberationFront called the order

"a heartbreaking messageto women and girls

that their government does not

view them as worthy of consideration,

and is not willing to recognizethem as a discrete class."

Others view it as a FirstAmendment violation.

- This is a show of force.

This is about showing who's in control

and that dissent is punished.

- Federal agencies have 100 days

to determine how to implement the order

for any business, faith-basedorganization, or school,

receiving federal funding.

Opposing it could be a costly decision.

There's also concern theorder could confuse children,

and what it would meanfor girls in sports.

- We've watched as young female athletes

have lost out on medals on podium spots,

on championship opportunities.

- Attorney Christiana Holcomb

represents three femalehigh school track stars

who sued the State of Connecticut

after being forced to competeagainst biological boys.

Under President Trump,

the Department of Education defended them,

and that would likely now change.

Biden's executive order seeks to build

on the 2020 Supreme Court ruling

that redefined sex discrimination

to include gender identity, butonly in cases of employment.

Holcomb says the president'sorder contradicts Title IX,

the historic law that paved the way

for sports equality in 1972.

- [Christiana] Title IX isclear that young women deserve

to compete on a level playing field.

The whole reason we have women's sports

as a separate category

is because of those physicaldifferences between the sexes.

- It's now wait and see to find out

how this executive order will play out

among federal agencieslike Education and Labor.

States are also debatinggender with a host of new bills

on sports and transgender medicine.

Heather Sells, CBN News.