Trump to sign executive order banning transgender people from military service
(The Hill) - President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, part of a broader effort to crack down on what his administration has described as “gender insanity” in the federal government.
Trump on Jan. 20, during his first hours in office, revoked an executive order signed by former President Biden in 2021 that allowed transgender people to serve and prevented the military from discharging soldiers because of their gender identity. Trump also signed a sweeping executive order recognizing only two genders, male and female.
Monday’s executive order builds on those efforts, directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who previously criticized allowing transgender people to serve, to outline new military readiness requirements that state transgender troops are not physically or mentally capable of doing so. It tasks Hegseth with acting against “the use of invented and identification-based pronouns” within the department.
The order also prohibits transgender women from “using or sharing sleeping, changing, or bathing in facilities designated for females.”
A fact sheet for Monday’s executive order refers to transgender Americans as “trans-identifying,” a technical term used by some to delegitimize transgender identities. It marks a rightward shift in language around transgender issues from Trump’s first term, when, in most cases, executive actions referred to trans people simply as transgender.
His 2017 executive order that first barred transgender troops uses the word “transgender” more than half a dozen times.
In his Jan. 20 order recognizing only two genders, Trump declared that the Biden administration permitted “the false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice versa.”
Monday’s executive order, according to the fact sheet, argues that allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military has undermined military readiness and “unit cohesion,” an argument that has long been used to prevent marginalized communities, including Black and gay Americans and women, from serving.
The order, first reported by the New York Post, is one of several that would reshape the military under Trump. He is also expected to sign orders on Monday to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the armed forces and reinstate service members discharged for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
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