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NEW: Trump Makes Massive Move Outraging Democrats: ‘Unable To Serve In The Military’
The second week of the new Trump administration is starting off much like the first, with a series of executive orders that are sure to send left-wing critics into a tailspin.
The latest round of orders to be signed by President Donald Trump on Monday will expand on his commitment to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion from all areas of government. This time, however, they will land deep within the U.S. military, a scion of global strength that conservatives have long complained was weakened under the Biden-Harris administration through overt social engineering.
The first action will prohibit transgender soldiers from serving, repealing a 2021 directive by then-President Joe Biden allowing trans service members to be open about their new gender. President Trump’s executive order will also lay out military standards for the use of pronouns, a flashpoint in the culture war that has come to define the battle between traditional and new-age gender conformation.
In defense of the ban on trans soldiers, the Trump administration will cite issues with mental and physical readiness, which will underline the official policy of the U.S. Department of Defense as soon as the president signs the order.
“Unit cohesion requires high levels of integrity and stability among service members,” reads a White House document outlining the new order and obtained by the New York Post.
There can be “no accommodation for anything less than resilience, strength, and the ability to withstand extraordinary physical demands,” it says. “Individuals who are unable to meet these requirements are unable to serve in the military. This has been the case for decades.”
Going on, White House officials state, “It can take a minimum of 12 months for an individual to complete treatments after transition surgery, which often involves the use of heavy narcotics. During this period, they are not physically capable of meeting military readiness requirements and require ongoing medical care. This is not conducive for deployment or other readiness requirements.”
While no comprehensive count of transgender U.S. military members exists, a 2024 estimate put the figure as high as 15,500.
This is President Trump’s second attempt to limit purge trans service members from the U.S. military. In 2018 he began to pursue a ban, only to see his efforts undone by Biden’s 2021 executive order.
Through his latest order, Trump will instruct Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to halt the “use of invented and identification-based pronouns” in the armed forces, prohibit biological males and females from sleeping, changing, and using bathing facilities intended for the opposite sex, and “update all Department of Defense medical standards to ensure they prioritize readiness and lethality,” the Post states.
At times, the White House memo singles out the Biden administration for promoting “gender insanity” to the detriment of military readiness; soldiers, the authors state, were frequently not “physically or mentally prepared to” carry out their duties, and taxpayers were footing the bill for gender-reassignment surgeries.
A second executive order set to be signed Monday will unwind DEI initiatives within the military immediately. In addition, it will place a ban on “discriminatory race- or sex-based preferences by any element of the Armed Forces, the Department of Defense, or the Department of Homeland Security.”
White House officials assert that “discrimination” was prevalent in Biden’s military through the implementation of “woke” DEI initiatives. Going forward, Hegseth will review all instances of discrimination himself.
In addition, all bureaucratic bodies within the military and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be nixed.
“Today’s Order moves our military away from this dark period and renews esprit de corps, readiness, and focus. It returns the Pentagon to the warfighter,” the document regarding the DEI order says. “This Order also combats ideologies that seek to divide our Armed Forces by race, sex or other immutable characteristics and thus tear at cohesion and military efficacy.”
Hegseth was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Friday in a razor-thin 50-50 vote, giving him the power to pursue a full MAGA agenda across the Pentagon. Also that day, Kristi Noem was confirmed to head up DHS, where she will be responsible for jettisoning DEI initiatives within Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, and other agencies under her purview.
