Trump Order Will End Military 'Gender Insanity,' Ban Taxpayer-Funded Gender Transitions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "During the Biden Administration, the Department of Defense allowed gender insanity to pervade our military organizations, family, and culture," the White House document states.
52% : "This included not only permitting the military to increase the number of individuals not physically or mentally prepared to serve, but also ordering the Department of Defense to pay for servicemembers' transition surgeries, as well as those of their dependent children -- at a cost of millions of dollars to the American taxpayer.
49% : The order will also rescind Biden's Executive Order 14004, which allowed for all sorts of accommodations of gender identity in the military, and opened wide the door for gender ideology and taxpayer-funded transgender interventions within military ranks.
49% : William Thibeau, an Army Ranger veteran and director of the Claremont Institute's American Military Project, told The Daily Wire on Monday that Trump and his newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are fulfilling campaign promises with "broad support among the American people" -- changes that are also "common sense for defense readiness." "Transvestite service members are nothing more than a political football for cultural virtue signaling that even some generals adopt to prove their compliance with the former liberal regime," Thibeau argued.
48% : Biden, however, repealed that ban shortly after taking office.
41% : Trump will direct the Department of Defense to update its guidance on trans-identifying medical standards for military service, and to rescind the Biden administration's guidance that is "inconsistent with military readiness," according to a White House document on the upcoming executive order.
35% : Trump has pledged to reverse that trend, warning ahead of the 2024 election: "There's woke at the top...
28% : Trump had reversed the policy allowing trans-identifying troops, citing concerns that these troops required "substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery."
26% : The Supreme Court sided with Trump on the matter in January 2019.

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