Trump to sign executive order banning transgender people from military service

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Monday's executive order builds on those efforts, directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who previously criticized allowing transgender people to serve, to outline new military readiness requirements that state transgender troops are not physically or mentally capable of doing so.
53% : Trump also signed a sweeping executive order recognizing only two genders, male and female.
48% : Trump on Jan. 20, during his first hours in office, revoked an executive order signed by former President Biden in 2021 that allowed transgender people to serve and prevented the military from discharging soldiers because of their gender identity.
40% : The order, first reported by the New York Post, is one of several that would reshape the military under Trump.
37% : (The Hill) - President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, part of a broader effort to crack down on what his administration has described as "gender insanity" in the federal government.
18% : In his Jan. 20 order recognizing only two genders, Trump declared that the Biden administration permitted "the false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice versa.

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