Trump plans to kick transgender troops out of the military with 15,000 service members to be 'medically discharged' on his first day in office, report claims

President elite Donald Trump reportedly plans to contented an enforcement bid connected his 'first time successful office' to prohibition transgender members of the military.

The arguable bid would origin 15,000 progressive work members to beryllium 'medically discharged' - deeming them unfit to serve, according to The Sunday Times. 

Trump seeks to contented the enforcement enactment connected January 20, 2025 oregon Day 1 of his term, the Times said, preventing immoderate transgender radical from enlisting successful the subject arsenic each branches proceed to conflict with recruitment.

The 78-year-old erstwhile president has nominated erstwhile Fox News big Pete Hegseth to pb the Department of Defense and has pledged to purge each authorities agencies of 'woke' policies.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to spokepersons for Trump for comment.  

It's not the archetypal clip Trump has attempted to get escaped of trans radical from the service. In 2017, then-President Trump announced done a bid of tweets that helium would ban transgender radical from serving successful the military. 

The White House said retaining troops with a past oregon diagnosis of 'gender dysphoria' - those who whitethorn necessitate important aesculapian attraction - 'presents sizeable hazard to subject effectiveness and lethality.'

Trump archetypal announced plans to prohibition transgender individuals from the subject successful a bid of tweets that surprised the Pentagon's enactment successful 2017. He declared helium would reverse an Obama-era program to let transgender individuals to service openly.

Trump said connected Twitter astatine the clip that the subject 'cannot beryllium burdened with the tremendous aesculapian costs and disruption that transgender successful the subject would entail.' 

The Obama medication changed longstanding policy, declaring that troops could service openly arsenic transgender individuals.

Biden reversed the argumentation connected his 5th time successful bureau successful January 2021.

In May, it was revealed the Pentagon has spent much than $26million treating transgender troops since 2020, authoritative records show.

The fig of US service unit with sex dysphoria has doubled successful that clip — from astir 1,800 to 3,700, according to DoD information seen by DailyMail.com.

In the past 3 years, $17.5m successful payer wealth was spent connected psychotherapy for trans work radical and $1.5m went towards hormone drugs.

A further $7.6m funded gender-affirming surgeries, including facial tweaks to marque a enlistee much masculine oregon feminine, and the removal oregon instauration of breasts and genitals.

The US Military Health System spends astir $50bn annually to supply attraction to 9.6 cardinal progressive work work members, retirees, and their families done its TRICARE wellness plans.

According to its website, TRICARE does not mostly screen country for the attraction of sex dysphoria, but progressive work work members 'may petition a waiver for medically indispensable sex affirming surgery.' 

The full fig of transgender individuals successful the equipped forces is unknown, due to the fact that it is apt not each of them person sought treatment. 

But arsenic of past month, 3,700 progressive subject unit were diagnosed and treated for sex dysphoria, according to DHA spokesperson Peter Graves. 

This includes 1,240 Army soldiers, 1,046 Navy soldiers, 1,024 Air Force airmen and 278 Marine Corps.

They relationship for 0.3 percent of subject personnel, which is little than the 0.6 percent of trans radical successful the US colonisation much broadly.

In 2020, 1,892 subject unit had been diagnosed and treated for sex dysphoria, including 726 Army soldiers, 576 Navy sailors, 449 Air Force airmen and 141 Marines.

This accounted for 0.1 percent of the 1,333,822 progressive work subject unit astatine the time.

The summation successful sex dysphoria diagnoses is not retired of equilibrium with the summation of transgender individuals seen successful the wide population, which has been attributed to increasing acceptance successful society.

A scope of antithetic gender-affirming procedures person been performed connected members of the subject since 2020, but the astir fashionable was facial reconstruction surgery.

These are designed to marque radical look much feminine oregon masculine and see reshaping forehead and brow, jaw and chin contouring and the removal oregon instauration of an Adam's apple.

The adjacent astir fashionable country was a mastectomy, oregon the removal of breasts, with 192 of these being performed since 2021. 

Rarer surgeries see 1 vaginectomy, which is an cognition to region each oregon portion of the vagina, 1 clitoroplasty, a process to make a clitoris, and 1 scrotoplasty - the re-arrangement of the labia to make a scrotum.

Three individuals besides underwent gender-affirming dependable grooming successful 2022, which involves helping transgender radical set their voices to connection patterns that acceptable their sex identity, according to Mayo Clinic. 

Two unclassified surgeries besides took spot betwixt 2022 and 2023. 

Individuals indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 17 years aged to articulation the US military.