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president donald trump has revoked a Biden-era order that allowed transgender people to serve in the military.
After taking the oath of office on Monday, the new president signed an order recalling the former president Joe Biden’s order known as the Allow all qualified Americans to serve their country in uniform, which was signed in 2021.
During the campaign, Trump promised to reinstate the ban on transgender troops that he imposed during his first term. In his inauguration speech, he said he would formally recognize that there are only two genders: male and female.
There are an estimated 9,000 to 14,000 transgender service members.
The new executive order was part of a rapid succession of moves Trump has taken to undo Biden’s policies. In a statement, the White House called out diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the federal government that have “corrupted them by replacing hard work, merit and equality with a divisive and dangerous preference hierarchy “.
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President Donald Trump has revoked a Biden-era order that allowed transgender people to serve in the military. (Greg Nash/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The move comes as part of a campaign by Trump and his nominee for secretary of the Department of Defense Pete Hegseth to eliminate any IED practice in US forces.
Last week, Trump tapped Matthew Lohmeier to be the next undersecretary of the Air Force. In 2021, Lohmeier, a space force lieutenant colonel, he was fired after calling out the military’s diversity programs and alleging “Marxism” within its ranks.
Lohmeier has published a book, “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military,” and appeared on podcasts arguing that the military was being weakened by Marxism, diversity efforts and critical race theory.
President Donald Trump promised during the election campaign to restore the ban on transgender troops that he imposed during his first term in office. (Photo by Hedil Amir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, praised the move, “already restoring our military’s focus on lethality by ending the wake-up DEI programs.”
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Monday’s actions are part of a broader Republican crackdown transgender in the military. GOP lawmakers successfully included an amendment in their 2025 defense policy bill that would ban irreversible transgender care for minors in the military health care system.
The move comes as part of a campaign by President Donald Trump and his nominee for Secretary of the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, to eliminate any IED practice in US forces. (AP)
An order requiring the federal government to recognize only two genders has banned the use of taxpayer dollars for “transgender services” after reports that some inmates were receiving government-funded transgender care. Medicaid, in some states, currently covers these treatments.
In addition, according to this order, federal prisons and shelters for migrants and rape victims must be segregated by biological sex. It would block requirements in government facilities and workplaces that transgender people be referred to by gender-aligned pronouns. Trump’s team says these requirements violate the First Amendment’s freedom of speech and religion.
The order does not issue a mandate at the national level which bathrooms can transgender people use or in which sports competitions they can participate, although many states have passed laws in these areas.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
