Restricting the use of certain pronouns identifying transgender troops serving in the U.S. military appears to be one of the next items on President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Trump is expected to sign a new executive order to that effect on Monday, Fox News reported.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be ordered to update medical standards, ensuring they “prioritize readiness and lethality” and take action to “end the use of invented and identification-based pronouns” within DOD.
Also included in the order is the restriction of sleeping, changing and bathing facilities by biological sex.
The ban is not immediate, but provides a directon to implement the policies.
It revokes an executive order by former President Joe Biden the White House argued “allowed for special circumstances to accommodate ‘gender identity’ in the military – to the detriment of military readiness and unit cohesion.”
Last week, Trump issued an executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military.
This is the fulfillment of a campaign promise made by Trump to reinstate the ban on transgender troops.
In his inauguration speech, Trump said recognizes only two genders — male and female.
