Trump revokes Biden order allowing transgender troops in bid to rid DEI from military

President Donald Trump has revoked a Biden-era bid allowing transgender radical to service successful the military. 

After taking the oath of bureau connected Monday, the caller president signed an bid revoking erstwhile President Joe Biden's order known arsenic Enabling All Qualified Americans To Serve Their Country successful Uniform, which was signed successful 2021.

On the run trail, Trump promised to reinstate the prohibition connected transgender troops helium imposed during his archetypal term. In his inauguration speech, helium said helium would formally admit that determination are lone 2 genders: antheral and female.

There are an estimated 9,000 to 14,000 transgender work members.

The caller enforcement bid was portion of a rapid-fire succession of moves Trump has taken to undo Biden's policies. In a statement, the White House called retired diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives crossed the national authorities that "has corrupted them by replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive and unsafe preferential hierarchy."

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President Donald Trump has revoked a Biden-era bid allowing transgender radical to service successful the military. (Greg Nash/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The determination comes arsenic portion of a run taken up by Trump and his Defense Department caput nominee Pete Hegseth to weed retired immoderate DEI practices crossed U.S. forces. 

Last week, Trump tapped Matthew Lohmeier to beryllium the Air Force’s adjacent undersecretary. In 2021, Lohmeier, a Space Force lieutenant colonel, was fired aft calling retired the military’s diverseness programs and alleging "Marxism" wrong its ranks. 

Lohmeier has self-published a book, "Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military" and appeared connected podcasts claiming the subject was being weakened by Marxism, diverseness efforts and captious contention theory.

President Donald Trump promised connected the run way to reinstate the prohibition connected transgender troops helium imposed during his archetypal term. (Photo by Hedil Amir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., seat of the House Armed Services Committee, praised the move, "is already restoring the absorption of our subject connected lethality by putting an extremity to woke DEI programs."

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Monday's actions are portion of a wider Republican crackdown on transgenderism wrong the military. GOP lawmakers successfully included an amendment successful their 2025 defence argumentation measure that bans irreversible transgender attraction for minors successful the subject healthcare system.

The determination comes arsenic portion of a run taken up by President Donald Trump and his Defense Department caput nominee Pete Hegseth to weed retired immoderate DEI practices crossed U.S. forces. (AP)

An bid requiring the national authorities to lone admit 2 genders has prohibited the usage of payer wealth for "transgender services" pursuing reports that immoderate inmates were receiving transgender attraction funded by the government. Medicaid, successful immoderate states, presently covers specified treatments. 

Also, nether that order, national prisons and shelters for migrants and rape victims are to beryllium segregated by biologic sex. It would artifact requirements astatine authorities facilities and astatine workplaces that transgender radical beryllium referred to utilizing pronouns that align with their gender. Trump’s squad says those requirements interruption the First Amendment’s state of code and religion.

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The bid does not contented a nationwide mandate connected which bathrooms transgender radical tin use oregon which sports competitions they tin enactment in, though galore states person passed laws successful those areas.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.