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The Hill: Trump to sign executive order banning transgender people from military service [View all]
The Hill 
Trump to sign executive order banning transgender people from military service
by Brooke Migdon - 01/27/25 11:31 AM ET
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,” 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.
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Trump to sign executive order banning transgender people from military service
by Brooke Migdon - 01/27/25 11:31 AM ET
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,” 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.
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