President Donald Trump signed Four executive orders related to the army Monday, including one who prohibits transgender people from recruitment and service publicly and another varies in diversity, fairness and integration initiatives in armed services.
The matter of sexually transformed military service, entitled “Giving priority for military excellence and preparation“Return a Trump’s first policy And it resorts An order by the then President Joe Biden This allowed people to recruit and allow service members already transit to receive the medical care related to the transfer.
“The policy of the United States government is to set high standards for preparing for forces, killing, cohesion, honesty, humility, monotheism, and integrity,” says it. “This policy does not agree with the restrictions of medical, surgical and mental health on individuals with sex defects. This policy also does not agree with the use of pronouns or the use of pronouns that reflect inaccurately the individual gender.”
It stipulates that the Ministry of Defense updated its military medical standards within 60 days, immediately “the end was invented and the conscience of the identity -based” and a ban on people who allocated males at birth from the use of sleeping facilities, change and bathing for women.
It will take time to implement, so the transgender members will not be expelled immediately. What will happen to the service members who receive care related to the transfer through the army’s health care program. Biden The defense bill was signed in December This is prohibited for sexual care for the children of transit service members, so that this care was already banned.
under The 2017 Military Military Military Restrictions of the Trump AdministrationThe members of the transgender service decreased in two categories: exempted, and this means that they went out before the restriction and allowed them to continue the service publicly and receive medical care related to the transfer, and others, which means that they went out after the restriction and had to continue as the sex appointed at birth and could not have any Transitional care covered by Tricare other than treatment. This policy completely prevents people in public from recruitment.
At that time, the administration confirmed that the policy was not a “transient military embargo”, as it was widely referred to, because it allowed the service members to apply for a concession. Although during the four years it was valid, only One concession to the public was reported.
“It may take at least 12 months per capita to complete treatments after the so -called transitional surgery, which often involves the use of heavy drugs,” the White House document around the new military military states Trump. “At this time, they are not physically able to meet the requirements of military readiness and continue to request consistent medical care. This is not favorable to publishing or other preparation requirements.”
The document claims that Biden’s order, which led to a retreat from the last restriction of Trump on the converted persons in the army, ordered the Ministry of Defense to “pay in exchange for surgeries for the service members, as well as those related to their children – at a cost of millions of dollars to the US taxpayer.”
The Ministry of Defense does not publicly report the number of people who are serving in the army, and estimates vary widely. one 2014 Report By the Williams Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles using data from 2011 Survey National Discrimination of Sexual Transfers I found that about 15,500 sexually transformed people were serving in the army. A 2016 report from Rand Depending on the data of the Ministry of Defense and previous Research (including the Williams Institute report), there was an estimated 10,790 people through the military and reserves, although it was found that this number could reach 2150.
A Report from Congress Research Service This month was updated that from 2016 to 2021, the Ministry of Defense spent about 15 million dollars on the sponsorship of (surgical and non -surgical) to 1892 of the active service members. From this amount, $ 11.5 million went to psychotherapy and $ 3.1 million for surgeries, According to Military.comQuoting the Ministry of Defense data submitted to the port.
Emily Sheling, commander of the navy, has worked in the army since 2005, the head of Sparta, a military military group. shilling She came out as a transgender woman in April 2019Soon after the first military restrictions on Trump, she was required to continue service in a way that is in line with the sex of her birth. When Biden Lift In 2021, she was able to go out at work.
When asked about Trump’s new command that restricts military military service, Shiling – who confirmed that she was not talking on behalf of the navy or Pentagon – is that she and the other transit service members “just want to continue service.”
She added: “I want to continue to use the skills that this nation has invested inside me as a fighter and leader.” “Since I got out of the transgender in 2019, I served with discrimination, and I got a promotional offer with discrimination as the best officer in my community. My country gave me a lot, as I served him was the greatest honor in my life.”
One of the other orders that Trump signed on Monday, entitled “Restore the power of American fighting“Diversity, stocks and integration programs in the army, and the solution of any Dei offices inside the defense and internal security departments and require the trustees of both departments to review the curricula of the US service academies” to ensure the alignment “with the request.
in Posted on Sunday on XPtegse the Minister of Defense, partially, wrote, “No more Dei in Deptofdefense” and “No exceptions, name or delay changes.” The post included a picture of a handwritten memo saying: “Those who do not comply will not work here.”
The restriction of diversity initiatives and the decline in the efforts of the transgender people in the Biden era was the top priority of Trump in the first days of his second term. Hours after its evangelization, released Dozens of executive ordersIncluding one advertisement The United States government will only get to know two sexesMales and females, and another End DEI software Inside federal agencies. As a result of the request for sex, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last week All passports were suspended Request changes in the sign of sex.
