Transgender service members to be separated from military, Pentagon memo says | Global News Avenue

The United States will begin Remove transgender troops The Pentagon said in a memo Wednesday that unless they get exemptions per case, they will be obtained from the military within 30 days.

The memorandum has been released Part of the court filing In a case challenging President Trump in late January Executive Order This is to prohibit military service for transgender personnel.

“The service members who are diagnosed or historical or exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysfunction will be treated to separate them from military service,” the memorandum reads.

It said that as long as the government retains interest in service members who directly support combat capabilities, it can be “exempted on a case-by-case basis.”

To obtain such exemption, the troops must show that they have never attempted a transition and demonstrate that “the gender of the service member is stable for 36 consecutive months without clinical clinical significance or clinical serious distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas”.

Transgender people have faced a roller coaster of changing military service policies in recent years, with the Democratic administration trying to serve publicly, and Mr. Trump repeatedly trying to keep them away.

During his second term at the time Barack Obama, the U.S. military lifted a ban on transgender forces in 2016.

Under this policy, transtroopers already served have been allowed to do so publicly and will begin accepting trans recruits by July 1, 2017.

But the first Trump administration delayed that date until 2018 Reversal of policy completely.

Mr. Trump’s controversial restrictions (with various court challenges that have changed) eventually came into effect in April 2019, after a lasting legal battle stretched to top courts in the United States.

Mr. Trump’s successor, former President Joe Biden Move to reverse the limit He said a few days after taking office in 2021 that all Americans who are eligible to serve should be able to do so.

After returning to office in January, Trump issued an executive order that once again targeted transgender military service, saying: “It expresses false ‘gender identity’ that differs from an individual’s gender does not meet the strict standards required for military service.”