President-elect Donald J. Trump is reportedly set to implement an executive order to discharge transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military. Sources say the expected order will reverse Joe Biden’s policy that allowed trans individuals to serve openly. This move marks a continuation of Trump’s earlier stance; during his first term, he banned trans service members, citing medical costs and disruption.
The anticipated executive order is part of a broader series of directives that Trump aims to enact upon returning to office. Throughout his campaign, Trump pledged to protect American women and youth from LGBTQ ideology, with a particular focus on preventing minors from being subjected to transgender drug and hormone therapies and genital mutilation procedures and keeping biological males out of women-only spaces and sports teams.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) have moved in parallel with the Trump transition team to try to ban biological males from women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill and in federal properties generally. This has incensed some in the transgender community, with an influencer who goes by ‘Venus Andromeda’ posting a video on Instagram saying he hopes to run into Mace in a women’s restroom so he can beat her to death.
This is the US Military. Pronouns. All these people need to go. pic.twitter.com/a92VHWaZvJ
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 25, 2024