Trump to ink new executive orders today banning transgender service members, military DEI programs
The Post reports that President Trump will sign two executive orders on Monday, one prohibiting transgender military personnel and the other eliminating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from the military.
Trump signed an executive order on his very first day of office, revoking Biden’s directive from 2021 that allowed transgender people to serve in the military openly. But the incoming EOs go even further.
The documents set out military standards for pronouns, gender identity, and the exclusion of thousands of transgender members due to their mental and physical fitness.
A White House document introducing the new order on transgender troops states that “unit cohesion requires high integrity and stability” among service members.
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It says that “nothing less than strength, resilience and the ability of a person to endure extraordinary physical demands” can be accommodated.
Individuals who do not meet these requirements will be unable serve in the military. The document states that this has been true for decades.
It can take up to 12 months for a person to finish their treatment after undergoing a transition surgery. This is because the heavy narcotics are often used. During this time, the patient is not physically able to meet military readiness requirements. They require ongoing medical treatment. It is not conducive to deployment or other requirements for readiness.”
Although there is no official count of transgender members in the active or reserve service, estimates from 2014 suggest that as many as 15 500 are involved.
Trump tweeted in 2017, when he was in his first term as President, that the US no longer “accepts or allows” transgender individuals to serve in the military. In 2018, his administration continued to enforce the ban, but the Biden executive order of 2021 ended it.
Trump’s latest EO regarding transgender individuals in the military directs Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: to ban “use of invented or identification-based pronouns in the armed services; to prohibit biological males and women from sleeping, changing, and using bathing and showering facilities meant for the opposite sex; and to “update Department of Defense Medical Standards to ensure that they prioritize readiness and deadlyness.”
The document criticizes the former president Joe Biden, who allowed the Department of Defense (DoD) to embrace “gender insanity” and allow soldiers to be deployed without being “physically prepared or mentally ready” to do so — all while paying for their gender altering medical treatments.
Documents on the second EO, addressing DEI within the armed services, prohibit “discriminatory racial or sex preferences by any element of either the Department of Defense or Department of Homeland Security.”
The document states that Hegseth will review all instances of “discrimination”, based on DEI, and that this could include some “woke” Generals who Trump has promised to fire.
The document claims that current DEI practices have resulted in a low morale among the military and the lowest recruitment numbers since 1940.
The order will ban bureaucratic bodies that are dedicated to DEI within the military. It will also direct Hegseth, and DHS Secretary Kristi Nuem, to review academic curricula at US Service Academies in order to rid them of “radical DEI ideologies and gender ideologies.”
The order today moves our military out of this dark period, renewing esprit de Corps, readiness and focus. The document describing the DEI order states that it “returns the Pentagon to warfighters”.
This Order combats ideologies which seek to divide the Armed Forces based on race, gender or other unchangeable characteristics. It also tears at cohesion as well as military effectiveness.
Hegseth’s nomination to the Senate, which will carry out Trump’s orders at the DOD with a vote 51-50 on Friday, was narrowly approved by the Senate, despite the close party lines, with Vice President JDVance voting the tiebreaker.
In his message to the force published on Saturday, he pledges to deter China’s aggression, end wars in the world “responsibly” while reorienting towards key threats.
Hegseth, in his statement, echoed similar rhetoric from the White House.
Trump has used the US military in the past to help him deport illegal migrants and secure the southern border. In his inaugural speech, he said that as commander-in chief his top responsibility is to “defend the country against threats and invasions.”
These Executive Orders are now being implemented according to the 2024 GOP platform, which promised that the US military would be the “strongest in the world” along with other policy points.
The platform stated that “Republicans ensure our military is the most powerful, modern and lethal force in the world.”
We will support our Troops by paying them more and fire woke left-wing Democrats as soon as we can.
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