The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Monday that he would sign an executive order that delves the US army of what he called “transgender ideology” in a potentially important setback for LGBTQ rights.
“To ensure that we have the most lethal struggle force in the world, we will obtain a transgender ideology of our military,” Trump told a republican retreat from Congress in Miami, listing it as one of the “four new executive orders.” sign related to the armed forces.
Transgender Americans have faced a roller coaster of changing policies about military service in recent years, with democratic administrations that seek to allow them to serve openly, while Trump has repeatedly tried to keep them out of the ranks.
The United States Army raised a prohibition of transgender troops that serve in the Armed Forces in 2016, during the second mandate of Democrat Barack Obama as president.
According to this policy, the trans troops that already served could do it openly, and transgender recruits began to be accepted before July 1, 2017.
But Trump’s first administration postponed that date until 2018 before deciding to reverse politics completely, which caused criticism of the rights groups.
Trump said that the members of the transgender service were disruptive, expensive and eroded military preparation and camaraderie among the troops.
Trump’s Democratic successor Joe Biden moved to reverse restrictions only a few days after assuming office in 2021, saying that all Americans described to serve should be able to do so.
The Executive Order of Biden restored the policy established by Obama, but Trump promised after his election to a second term last year that “would get transgender out of the army”, among other reversions of trans rights.
Although the number of transgender troops in the US army is quite small, with estimates of about 15,000 of more than two million uniformed members of the service, their dismissal would reduce US forces at a time when the country already faces difficulties in recruiting the New staff.
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Transgender problems have eliminated US politics in recent years, since states controlled by Democrats and Republicans have moved in opposite directions on policies ranging from medical treatment to books on the subject are allowed in public or school libraries .
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