The US Army will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the army and will stop performing or facilitating the processes related to gender infections for service members, according to a memorandum of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, filed in court on Monday.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month, which targeted transgender troops in a personal way – a man ”at a point, saying that a man identified as a woman” is a man ” Did not suit. “
In a memorandum on 7 February, Hegseth said, “Immediately effective, all new access to individuals of gender dysphoria has been stopped.”
He said, “All the undetermined, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with confirmation of gender infections for service members or facilitating have been stopped,” he said.
Hegseth said that already persons with gender dysphoria in the army will be treated with dignity and respect, and will provide additional details for personnel and readiness for the Defense Secretary Secretary and readiness for what it would mean.
According to the data of the Defense Department, the army has about 1.3 million active-duty personnel. While advocates of transgender rights say that there are more than 15,000 transgender service members, officials say the number is less in thousands.
A survey by Galp published on Monday stated that 58% of the Americans refused to openly allow transgender individuals serving in military, but the support declined by 71% in 2019.
Last week, an American judge asked the lawyers for Trump’s administration to ensure that six military members sued to stop the executive order targeting transgender soldiers are not removed from service before court proceedings. Is.
Civil rights organizations had filed for a temporary preventive order after a service member that he was told that he should either be classified as a man or separated from the army.
Mirium Perelson, a 28 -year -old female transgender service member located at Fort Jackson in South Carolina, said she needed to leave the area of sleep for women soldiers, a cot was given in an empty orbit and allowing women toilets to be used Did not give ,
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