The Trump transition team has denied a report in a British newspaper that claims President-elect Donald Trump is planning an executive order to remove all transgender soldiers from the military and block transgender people from joining the military.
As reported by the British newspaper “Defense Source'' times reported The order could be issued on Trump's first day back in the White House. The order reportedly goes further than President Trump's mandate during his first administration that transgender people could serve as their biological sex.
In a statement to the newspaper and other news organizations, Caroline Levitt, a spokeswoman for Trump's transition team, said:
These anonymous sources are guesses and have no idea what they are actually saying. Nothing has been decided on this issue. No policy should be considered official unless it comes directly from President Trump or his authorized spokesperson.
President Trump reversed policies introduced by former President Barack Obama in his final year in office, allowing transgender soldiers to serve openly in the military, undergo gender reassignment surgery and officially change their gender in the Pentagon system. I made it.
President Joe Biden then reversed Trump's policies in his first week in the White House.
There are many inaccurate reports about what the incoming Trump administration will do.
timesquoted an anonymous source “familiar with President Trump's plans” and complained that “people will be kicked out when the military can't recruit enough people.”
It's unclear how many transgender soldiers are currently serving in the military, out of a total of 1.3 million active-duty members.
President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has vowed to purge the military of the woke policies and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts that flourished over the past decade, beginning under the Obama administration. Ta.
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