According to a memo filed in court on Monday by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsit, the US military will no longer allow transgender people to join the armed forces and perform gender transfer procedures for service members or It will prevent it from facilitating.
After Donald Trump signed an executive order in January, Hagsith’s memo has come to light aimed at transgender soldiers. The president’s order stated that the person who identified a woman as a woman was “not in accordance with the desired humility and selflessness of the service member”.
For this purpose, Hagsit’s Memo – filed in Washington DC in the US District Court on Monday – said: “Immediately effective, all new acquisitions for people with gender -dysphoria have stopped.
“All extraordinary, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with gender transfer or facilities for service members have been stopped.”
“The department has to make sure that it is building a ‘force’ that has not been described by anything other than the ability or mission restriction,” hegsith’s memo added. Efforts to divide the army weaken our power and weaken us.
Higgsit’s memo cited Trump’s executive order, saying: “As the president clearly stated…” We do not meet the strict standards needed for military services by expressing different “gender identity” from an individual’s gender. Can. “
Hegsit said the gender -dyspharians who are already in the military will “be treated with dignity and respect”, and will provide additional details about the Under Secretary of Defense for Defense and manufacture.
According to US Department of Defense data, the military has about 1.3 million active duty personnel. Although transgender rights supporters say there are 15,000 transgender service members, officials say the number is less than thousands.
A Gallup survey published on Monday states that 58 % of Americans have allowed people serving in the military to open public transgender people – but their support has decreased by 71 % in 2019.
The US Federal Judge has recently asked lawyers for Trump’s second presidential administration to make sure that six military members who have filed a lawsuit to stop the executive order targeting transgender soldiers. It is not removed from the service before further court proceedings.
Civil rights organizations filed a temporary prevention order when a member of a service alleged that he was told that he had to either be classified or separated from the military.
Mary Perlson, a 28 -year -old female transgender service member in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, said she needed to leave the gold area for female soldiers. He was given a bed in an empty classroom and was not allowed to use the women’s room.
On Thursday, the Lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign filed a Legal fodder Three senior naval officers against the Trump administration on their executive order to ban transgender people from the military.
In litigation, the country’s two largest LGBT Q+ Advocate groups wrote: “Member of the Transgender Service in the service of our country – to serve our nation to pay the final price possibly the final price Like every other service member, and clearly, our country is ready to stand and protect our freedoms.
It added: “But the military ban of 2025 removed them and removed them for no reason. Rather, it was unfoundedly disqualified all transgender people for service, insulting them. He behaves and behaves them, and cruelly makes each of them unable to ‘a respected, true and disciplined lifestyle’, even based on one’s personal life, they are transgender. These claims are definitely wrong.
