The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights proposes to update its regulation on nondiscrimination in programs or activities conducted by the Department consistent with Executive Order 14168, entitled, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. The final rule removes gender identity and sexual orientation as protected bases and replaces the term gender throughout with the term sex in accordance with the Executive Order 14168, entitled, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.