Signed by Biden last week, the order affirms a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling which found that LGBTQ people are protected from employment discrimination under the Civil Rights Act.The president instructed the federal government to embrace that interpretation when implementing and enforcing laws prohibiting sex-based discrimination — a notable turnaround from the Trump administration, which argued that discriminating against LGBTQ people should be legal.Read More: President Biden issues executive order protecting LGBTQ people from discriminationWhile LGBTQ organizations praised Biden’s executive order, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and close ally of Donald Trump, claimed that it was an “assault on biological.