President Trump signed an executive order directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon's policy on transgender troops, suggesting a possible future ban on their service. The order asserts that serving as a transgender individual conflicts with military values and readiness. This move comes alongside other orders supporting troops who left due to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and proposes rollbacks in diversity programs. The announcement marks ongoing efforts to shift military policies that faced legal challenges in Trump's previous term.
To ensure that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, we will get transgender ideology the hell out of our military.
The order claims that service by troops identifying by a gender other than their biological one 'conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle.'
Trump's widely expected order largely sets the stage for a future ban, directing Hegseth to work out how it might be implemented in policy.
The presidential orders came at the start of Trump's second week back in the White House as he welcomed into post his new defense secretary.
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