Spencer Lindquist

The order requires federal agencies to reflect biological sex and bans gender marker changes on passports and IDs. It also directs agencies like the State Department and Homeland Security to use immutable sex designations and aims to block taxpayer-funded gender transition treatments for federal prisoners while increasing privacy protections in women's spaces like prisons and shelters.

Finally, it ends the forced use of preferred pronouns, including in the workplace and schools. Alliance Defending Freedom President Kristen Wagner spoke to us about the orders.

Finally, it ends the forced use of preferred pronouns, including in the workplace and schools. Alliance Defending Freedom President Kristen Wagner spoke to us about the orders.

Adam, so thanks for sitting down with us to talk about these fires. You know, there's a wide range of different topics on the policy level that we definitely like to discuss. But I think first off, I just wanted to hear a bit about your experience with the fires. I know that you evacuated and you've got a condo that you've been concerned about.

Adam, so thanks for sitting down with us to talk about these fires. You know, there's a wide range of different topics on the policy level that we definitely like to discuss. But I think first off, I just wanted to hear a bit about your experience with the fires. I know that you evacuated and you've got a condo that you've been concerned about.

If you could just walk us through what it's been like personally so far.

If you could just walk us through what it's been like personally so far.

Yeah, and you said that your area didn't burn down.

Yeah, and you said that your area didn't burn down.

Right after the fire broke out, there was all this coverage of the past comments from the current fire department chief about equity, about the gender balance of the fire department. I'm sure that's what was on your mind when you were thinking about the condo. What is the sex of the firefighter in that area?

Right after the fire broke out, there was all this coverage of the past comments from the current fire department chief about equity, about the gender balance of the fire department. I'm sure that's what was on your mind when you were thinking about the condo. What is the sex of the firefighter in that area?

Could you speak a little bit about those concerns, those equity concerns, the prevalence that they have in the fire department and the public response, the backlash to those comments?

Could you speak a little bit about those concerns, those equity concerns, the prevalence that they have in the fire department and the public response, the backlash to those comments?

Yeah, and that constituency, I mean, especially post-2020, DEI woke, generally speaking, as a broad term. That was all the rage. There was an institutional takeover. It spanned government. It spanned media. It spanned corporate America. Do you think that that— group of people, the Palisades, Santa Monica, if we look at that almost as an interest group in and of itself, right?

Yeah, and that constituency, I mean, especially post-2020, DEI woke, generally speaking, as a broad term. That was all the rage. There was an institutional takeover. It spanned government. It spanned media. It spanned corporate America. Do you think that that— group of people, the Palisades, Santa Monica, if we look at that almost as an interest group in and of itself, right?

Do you think that'll be powerful enough for government leaders to say, you know what, we're actually going to pull back on the red tape, we're going to pull back on the regulations, we're going to pull back on these overly burdensome permitting processes? Do you think that's going to be sufficient, or do you think they... are still going to have these policies that are going to push people out.

Do you think that'll be powerful enough for government leaders to say, you know what, we're actually going to pull back on the red tape, we're going to pull back on the regulations, we're going to pull back on these overly burdensome permitting processes? Do you think that's going to be sufficient, or do you think they... are still going to have these policies that are going to push people out.

didn't come from that world so they didn't really experience it but i think now they're getting a little bit of a front row seat to it and so i hope sort of globally it is impactful and then just last question in the couple minutes more that we have could you just tell us a story of you said your background is in construction you tried to have your background be in firefighting right you you tried to go into firefighting as a career could you tell us a story of your attempt to get into firefighting and and what exactly occurred there

didn't come from that world so they didn't really experience it but i think now they're getting a little bit of a front row seat to it and so i hope sort of globally it is impactful and then just last question in the couple minutes more that we have could you just tell us a story of you said your background is in construction you tried to have your background be in firefighting right you you tried to go into firefighting as a career could you tell us a story of your attempt to get into firefighting and and what exactly occurred there

He wasn't lying.