Trump expected to sign executive order barring transgender people from military service

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : " In a post shared Sunday on X, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrote, in part, "No more DEI at @DeptofDefense" and "No exceptions, name-changes, or delays."
51% : " Restricting diversity initiatives, and rolling back Biden-era transgender rights efforts have been top priorities for Trump in his second term.
50% : The order regarding transgender service members and potential recruits will reinstate a policy Trump issued during his first term and rescind an order issued by former President Joe Biden that allowed trans people to enlist and permitted currently enlisted trans service members to receive coverage for transition-related medical care.
50% : " The Department of Defense doesn't publicly report how many trans people are serving in the military, and estimates vary widely.
48% : The order will update "all Department of Defense medical standards to ensure they prioritize readiness and lethality," according to a White House document on the upcoming executive order.
48% : A 2016 report from the Rand Corporation drawing from Department of Defense data and previous research (including the Williams Institute report) found that there were a maximum of 10,790 trans people serving in the military and the reserves, though it found that figure could also be as low as 2,150.
47% : The order reinstates a policy Trump implemented during his first term as president that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already enlisted from transitioning.
47% : A report by the Congressional Research Service that was updated earlier this month found that between 2016 and 2021, the Department of Defense spent about $15 million to provide transition-related care (surgical and nonsurgical) to 1,892 active duty service embers.
43% : One of the other orders Trump is expected to sign Monday will prohibit diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military, disbanding any DEI offices within the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security and requiring the secretaries of both departments to review United States Service Academies curricula to ensure that they eliminate "radical DEI and gender ideologies.
39% : " The document alleges that Biden's order undoing Trump's last restriction on trans people serving in the military ordered the Department of Defense to "pay for service members' transition surgeries, as well as those of their dependent children -- at a cost of millions of dollars to the American taxpayer.

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