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The Pentagon plans to launch currently in service Transgender service members which does not meet the specific requirements under its new policy, according to the official directives made public in a judicial file on Wednesday.
“The military who have a current diagnosis or history or have symptoms in accordance with gender dysphoria will be treated for the separation of military service”, explains a memo describing the policy, which was signed by the official exercising the functions of the Defense Subsecretaire for staff and preparation. The service note was included in a judicial file as part of a An in progress trial on Pentagon policy.
“The department recognizes only two sexes: men and women,” explains the political note. “An individual’s sex is immutable, immutable during a person’s life. All members of the service will only serve their gender. »»
Political directives follow An executive decree Signed by the President Donald Trump In January, the Pentagon ordered the implementation of its own policies which say that the members of the Transgender Service are incompatible with military service. We do not know how many transgender people serve in the army; In 2018, an independent research institute estimated that there were 14,000 transgender troops serving.
On Thursday, a senior defense official said that there were 4,240 members of the service through active service, the reserve and the National Guard with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, defined as the psychological distress that an individual feels when their gender identity differs from their sex at birth. But all transgender individuals do not have gender dysphoria.
The official said that around 1,000 soldiers had undergone surgery affirmed by the sexes between 2014 and 2025.
The exceptions to eliminate the candidates of the military service are if there is a “convincing government interest … which directly supports the capacities to fight against war” and if the individual is willing to comply with all the standards “associated with the sex of the applicant”.
A member of the service may also be kept if they demonstrate “36 consecutive months of stability” in their gender without “distress or clinically significant deficiency”, if they can prove that they have “never tried to go to a sex other than their sex” and if they are willing to adhere to “all applicable standards” relating to their sex “and if they are willing to adhere to” all applicable standards ” their sex.
The document detailing the new Pentagon policy emerged in the deposit of the court in the context of a legal challenge to the image of the order of Trump. During the recent hearings in the case, the American district judge Ana Reyes said that the executive decree was “undoubtedly disparaged with the animus” – noting that it could be inclined to present itself in favor of several members of the Trans service and two trans people hoping to join the army who brought a trial last month.
But Reyes, appointed from former president Joe Biden, agreed to decide to decide to block the order indefinitely until she sees the official advice of the ministry by implementing. More written legal arguments on both sides will be submitted in the coming days, and the judge should hold another hearing in the case later next month.
A similar ban that Trump delivered in 2017 led to at least four prosecution by arguing that the ban represented an unconstitutional form of sex discrimination. The courts of federal district across the country have temporarily blocked the ban on being implemented, but the Supreme Court finally let the prohibition take effect in 2019 without deciding if it was constitutional. Biden reversed Trump’s policy in 2021.
The new Pentagon policy is much strict than politics under The ban on the Trump administrationwhich allowed the troops which had joined before the policy takes effect to be accelerated and continue to serve. The policy made public on Wednesday ordered that the separate soldiers will not be considered non -deployable until they are withdrawn from the service. He also indicates that no funds from the Ministry of Defense will be used for any surgical procedure relating to “sexual reallowing surgery, genital reconstruction surgery such as dysphoria treatment in the sexes or the newly initiated inter-sex hormone therapy.”
Air Force Master SGT. Logan Ireland, who has been openly trans for approximately a decade, resisted the argument of the Ministry of Defense according to which the transgender soldiers are not compatible with military standards or national security interests.
“Thousands of transgender soldiers like me are currently occupying critical roles, many of which require years of specialized training and expertise,” said Logan on Wednesday. “We are deleting would create important operational gaps that could take more than a decade to fill, undermining the preparation and efficiency of the armed forces.”
Policy changes will also have an impact on transgender recruits, including some who have been separated from the military under the first administration of Trump because of their identity.
Among them, Riley Rhyne, who was dismissed from the National Air Guard under the first administration of Trump. After Biden canceled the first ban, Rhyne re -enrolled with the army and was to be shipped for basic training in March.
“Doing it a second time is very hurtful,” said Rhyne earlier this month after his basic training was suspended after Trump’s decree. After receiving the news from the policy of the Ministry of Defense on Wednesday, Rhyne said that he was “not surprised and deeply disappointed”.
“We have already fought this and we are ready to fight again,” said Rhyne.
This story has been updated with additional reports.
Devan Cole and Elizabeth Wolfe of CNN contributed to this report.