Pentagon Orders Discharge Of Transgenders

The Department of Defense has issued new guidance ordering the military services to begin the process of discharging transgender members of the Armed Forces in 30 days. The new policy recognizes only two sexes; it requires members of the Armed Forces to adhere to the physical fitness and grooming standards of their biological sex. Any attempt at chemically or surgically changing sex makes the person unsuitable for military service. If a person had, at some point, been transgender they can be retained if they "demonstrate “36 consecutive months of stability” in their sex with no “clinically significant distress or impairment” if they can prove they have “never attempted to transition to any sex other than their sex” and if they are willing to adhere to “all applicable standards” relating to their sex."

f. The Department only recognizes two sexes: male and female. An individual's sex is immutable, unchanging during a person's life. All Service members will only serve in accordance with their sex, defined in Executive Order 14168, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," as "an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female."
g. Where a standard, requirement, or policy depends on whether the individual is a male or female ( e.g., medical fitness for duty, physical fitness and body fat standards; berthing, bathroom, and shower facilities; and uniform and grooming standards), all persons will be subject to the standard, requirement, or policy associated with their sex.
h. Pronoun usage when referring to Service members must reflect a Service member's sex. In keeping with good order and discipline, salutations ( e.g., addressing a senior officer as "Sir" or "Ma'am") must also reflect an individual's sex.

The memo reiterates an earlier policy that barred transgender individuals from enlisting.
Even though the precursor to this policy is in litigation, it seems unlikely to be successful. Similar legal histrionics followed Trump's ban on transgenders in the military in 2017. That ban was upheld by the Supreme Court in a 2019 decision before Joe Biden reversed the policy in 2021.
The ban on transgenders is long overdue. If a transgender has progressed beyond the point of Klinger-esque crossdressing, they probably are not deployable because of the psychiatric and medical care they need to continue their attempt to transition from something they are into something they aren't. In context, a kid with braces can't enlist. A kid who has taken Adderall or Ritalin in the previous three years can't enlist. And yet we not only enlisted transgenders, we allowed them to have surgery at government expense.
Mirroring the experience of young women in varsity athletics, men "transitioning" to women were bunked with military women.
Finally, the entire project was corrosive of military discipline. Guidance was issued on addressing a 6-2, 220-pound bearded officer wearing a skirt. Anecdotally, the fear of being accused of being a "transphobe" frequently let transgenders exhibit behavior and performance that would get a regular soldier punished.
The new guidance clears the decks, so to speak, for the military to toss aside this modern-day version of Robert S. McNamara's Project 100,000 and get back to the business of training to win wars.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/27/pentagon-orders-discharge-of-transgenders-n2186073