Trump is looking to boot transgender troops from the military. Here's why that's complicated

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : What does the order say?Trump’s order essentially says that anyone who is diagnosed with gender dysphoria — the distress someone feels when their assigned sex and gender identity don’t match — cannot serve in the military.
54% : By March 2019, as courts ruled against the ban, the Pentagon laid out a policy that allowed those currently serving to continue with plans for hormone treatments and gender transition if they had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
39% : On his first day in office Trump issued an executive order that he said would “restore biological truth” to the federal government by eliminating the word “gender” and replacing it with “sex.”
36% : Although the new order will affect only a tiny fraction of America’s 2.1 million service members, it has taken on oversized importance to Trump and his administration, who see transgender forces as a sign the military is “woke” or not focused on training and winning wars.
28% : A year after that, just six months into his first presidential term, Trump suddenly announced via tweet he was not going to allow transgender people to serve in the military “in any capacity.”

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