President Donald Trump has issued his third executive order in one week aimed at restricting rights for the transgender community. Trump previously issued orders banning trans people from serving in the military and restricting gender-affirming care for those under 19.On Wednesday, Trump signed the Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling order, which would restrict gender-affirming policies in public schools, limit funding to schools that support gender-affirming practices and instruct state attorneys general to take legal action against educators or school officials who facilitate social transition or unlawfully practicing medicine by offering diagnoses and treatment.These directives would mean teachers and staff would be restricted from using pronouns that align with a students gender identity and instead only use the pronoun of the students gender assigned at birth. The order also requires trans and nonbinary students to use bathrooms or locker rooms that match their gender assigned at birth, and bars trans students from playing sports that align with their gender.Schools that do not follow the guidelines in this order risk losing federal and grant funding.In the order, the Trump administration accuses schools of indoctrinating students with radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight. This is something Trump said often on the campaign trail, along with claiming that teachers were performing gender-affirming operations on students.LGBTQ+ rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign issued the following response to the order.All students deserve to feel safe and welcome in school, said Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign.But this new administration is making it clear they want to dictate to children, their parents, and educators what they can read, what they can learn, what they can say, and who they can be. They want to limit the ability to talk about the very existence of LGBTQ+ people in our schools and keep all our children from being taught an honest, accurate history of our nation. All young peopleincluding LGBTQ+ students and the children of LGBTQ+ parents, who are accepted by the adults in their life have much better outcomes for mental health and other metrics. We owe it to them to ensure that they feel safe, respected and ready to learn when theyre at school.Lambda Legal, which has already said they plan to take legal action against Trumps previous orders, said this about yesterdays order.Compelling federally-funded schools to disrespect the identities of LGBTQ+ youth, particularly trans youth, not only opens them up to harassment, bullying, and abuse, but in fact encourages it.In a statement, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) Executive Director Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen referred to Trump as a bully and said that the order disrespects students pronouns and violates the constitution.The scapegoating of trans students and developmentally appropriate curricula is from an old playbook, said Heng-Lehtinen. Trump and his Project 2025 cronies want to erode public good and divest from public education, and they have opted for the most spineless approach by attacking trans young people. This executive order does not change the law, but it sends a harmful message to trans young people and could make school harder for students who are already struggling to get through each day.The post Trump moves to restrict transgender students rights in schools appeared first on News Is Out.