Trump administration banish transgender people from military enrollment | News Donald Trump
The United States Army announced that they will no longer accept transgender people who hope to apply or facilitate gender affirmation procedures for members of active services.
Memo submitted at the US District Court in Washington, DC, on Monday the last effort of President Donald Trump’s administration is to restore protection for transgender people.
“All new approaches to individuals with the history of gender dysphoria are in force,” wrote Defense Minister of Hegsetth in the Memoranda, which is dated February 7th.
“All unplanned, scheduled or planned medical procedures associated with confirmation or facilitating gender transition for service members paused.”
Trump’s administration framed the restriction of transgender rights in the military as a necessary step in ensuring “military willingness”. He also declared what he considers to promote the “radical gender ideology” within the armed forces, part of his bigger campaign against initiatives for diversity.
But critics say that on Monday, related measures aimed at erasing transgender identities, permanent discrimination and forcing members of transgender services to live in secret and fear.
Proponents say as many as 15,000 transgender people are currently serving in the US army, of 1.3 million members of the Active Division Service.
Campaign in progress
In the US, there is a relatively widespread support for transgender soldiers and military members. The Gallup Research Company posted report On Monday, it was found that 58 percent of Americans approved to allow open -minded people to serve in the military.
But Gallup noted that that number had decreased from earlier highlights. In 2019, for example, the approval rating was 71 percent. By 2021, however, it fell to 66 percent – and then to 58 percent this year.
The company noted that the Republicans and, to a lesser extent, reduced the number independent.
Trump has repeatedly referred to transgender people during this period of time. During his first term, from 2017 to 2021, he similarly moved to transgender people from military service.
“After consulting my generals and military experts, please inform you that the United States Government will not accept or allow you,” he wrote over two places In 2017, “transgender individuals serving in any capacity in the US army.”
Former President Joe Biden abolished that limit. But as Trump has taken his duty for his second term this year, he renewed his campaign against transgender people, signing Executive command On the first day, denying the existence of “self -assessable gender identity”.
A few days later, January 27, he signed another Executive commanddirected especially at the military.
“The male claim that the woman and his request to be respectful of this falsehood is not in accordance with the humility and selflessness needed by a member of the service,” the command reports.
February 3, a group of civil rights organizations filed a temporary A mandatory order Against Trump’s decision, on behalf of six Transger Service members and two who want to enroll.
They have submitted a request to the US District Court in Washington, DC. As part of their appeal, they included a testimony of 28-year-old transgender wife, Miriam Perelson, who serves in the US army.
She was allegedly told that she had to either be classified as a man or be expelled from the army. She also explained that she was instructed to leave the women’s sleeping area and sleeping on the bed in an empty classroom, except that she was forbidden to use women’s toilets.
“I spent more than half of my life in the military, including the fight in Afghanistan,” said the sergeant of the army Kate Cole, another prosecutor in a lawsuit, in a statement.
“Removal of qualified transgender soldiers like me means the exodus of experienced staff who fill key positions and cannot easily replace it, putting a burden on our fellow soldiers who have left. It’s just wrong – and it destabilizes our armed forces. “
The campaign for restricting transgender rights, however, is expanded outside the army.
On February 5, Trump also signed a command that threatens to deprive the financing of schools that enabled transgender women to participate in women’s sports.
And in the state of Utah on Monday, the state legislative body approved a proposal for a law for prohibiting students of transgender faculties to live in a dormitory who are in accordance with their gender identity, the first such restriction that explicitly aiming for transgender people in university residential space.
“If you don’t fit,” a Republican MP said during a debate over the law, “then it is your fault.”
