May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist is the woman behind “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The executive order directs federal agencies to eradicate every trace of what it calls “gender ideology” and established new government-wide definitions of the sexes. “Woman” meant adult human female. “Female” was “a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” Men made “the small reproductive cell.” “Sex,” it decreed, was an “immutable biological reality.”
Mailman spent four years working in the first Trump administration, becoming an immigration hawk and close ally and friend of senior adviser Stephen Miller.
Mailman describes herself as “one of the most effective and connected veterans of the Trump West Wing,” the get-it-done woman for Trump’s get-it-done man. “Stephen [Miller]’s the ideas guy,” she told Blaze News in April. “And then I’m trying to be the one who makes it happen.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/trump-anti-trans-may-mailman-sports-ban-womens-bill-of-rights-terf/
