by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2024 Real World News
“No decision” has yet been made on whether President-elect Donald Trump will kick some 15,000 transgender troops out of the U.S. military, Trump spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said on Monday.
Leavitt’s comments came in response to a report from the UK outlet the Times, citing U.S. defense sources, which said that Trump was planning to issue an executive order to remove all active trans service personnel from their posts.
“These unnamed sources are speculating and have no idea what they are actually talking about,” Leavitt told the New York Post.
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“No decisions on this issue have been made. No policy should ever be deemed official unless it comes directly from President Trump or his authorized spokespeople,” Leavitt added.
The Times report on Monday said an estimated 15,000 service members would be deemed unfit to serve and medically discharged.
The outlet’s sources claimed Trump’s planned order, which could be signed as early as Jan. 20, would also ban transgender people from joining the military in the future.
During his first term, Trump allowed transgender service members to keep their jobs but issued an executive order which prohibited future sign-ups.
Trump’s order, which went into effect in 2019, was immediately rescinded by Joe Biden in 2021.
The Times report surfaced after Trump selected Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, a combat veteran, to serve as his secretary of defense.
“Hegseth, who has done tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay as an infantry officer, has been an advocate of exiling military leadership who enforce controversial diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives,” the New York Post noted. “He also authored a best-selling book, ‘The War on Warriors’, in which he blamed the ‘woke military’ for the recruiting crisis facing the nation’s armed services.”
Under Biden-Harris administration 2021 guidance, all transgender service members in the new “woke” U.S. military who are starting hormone therapy may seek a fitness exemption for a period of 6 months with re-evaluation every 6 months.
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