The US Navy will no longer ask staff about gender identity, focusing on the biological gender only when it comes to patterns and one -pointed spaces on ships and bases, the Stars and stripes of the military newspaper reported.
Exit received a sailor memorandum Dated Tuesday, he states that he now recognizes two sexes, which are “not replaceable”.
One -eurless “intimate spaces”, as the memo refers to them, include bathrooms and residential areas for single sailors on the bases and in ship bindings, according to the stars and stripes.
Changes are the result of executive commands President Donald Trump Signed last month under the heading, “Defense of women from the extremism of gender ideology and the return of biological truth to the Federal Government.”
Riley Gaines presented on the Trump HHS website based on the “two sex” executive order
The official seal of the Navy was exposed. (Paul Richards/AFP via Getty Images)
The guideline states that “recognizes that there are Only two sexes: male and female “ And that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “will use these definitions and promote policies that acknowledge that women are biological female and men biological men.” It continues that a man is a person “gender characterized by a reproductive system with biological function of sperm production,” and a female is “a gender person characterized by a reproductive system with a biological function of egg creation (this).”
Air Forces and the Army issued guidelines for their plans to remove gender identity policies in accordance with Trump’s commands earlier this month.
Since 2018, there have been estimated 14,700 US military staff identified as transgender, according to Report eg -a citing a Palma Center Studio. 2021, a military study of the PEOPLE analytics Office showed that approximately 1.7% of the service members were identified as a transgender or has a gender identity that was different from their gender at birth.
The Navy did not immediately respond to the Digital Request Fox News for comment.
USS Carl Vinson Navy Marsy Through iconic Viaduct 6. (Mario Tama)
President Donald Trump signs an executive order at an oval office at the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, February 25, 2025. (Swimming pool)
“This administration returns common sense and restores biological truth to the Federal Government,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. he said in a statement. “The policy of the previous administration of an attempt to engineer gender ideology in every aspect of public life is over.”
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Trump’s executive commands associated with gender-which involve the ban on biological men from female sports and transgender people from the army-have been legal challenges, with several lawsuits have submitted progressive and LGBT advocacy groups, claiming that orders violate the protection of civil rights for transgender individuals.
Fox News’ Alexander Hall and Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.
