Away the transgender from the US army, Trump signs the order

The President of the United States Donald Trump has signed An executive order that frees the army from what he called “transgender ideology”. The provision is part of a series of orders relating to the army that Trump told journalists that he had signed on the Air Force One, and which provide for the construction of an American version of the Iron Dome Missilistic Defense System, the reinstatement of the military fired for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid and the suppression of the programs of diversity in the armed forces.

“To ensure that we have the most lethal combat force in the world, we will eliminate the transgender ideology from our army,” Trump said, promising to restore the ban and demonizing any recognition of gender diversity.

In his order, Trump said that the armed forces “were afflicted by a radical ideology to appease activists” and that “Many mental and physical health conditions are incompatible with active service “.

The order states that “the adoption of an identity of gender incompatible with the sex of an individual enters into conflict with the commitment of a soldier towards an honorable lifestyle, truthful and disciplined, also in his own personal life”. “The affirmation of a man to be a woman and his request that the others honor this falsehood are not consistent with the humility and altruism requested to a member of the active service,” he added.

The orders were signed on the day when a welcome ceremony was held at the Pentagon For the new defense secretary, Pete Hegsethconfirmed last week despite the concerns about his inexperience and the alleged precedents of alcoholism and domestic violence.

In recent years, transgender Americans have had to face a swing of changing policies on military service, with democratic administrations that tried to allow them to serve openly, while Trump repeatedly tried to keep them out of the ranks. The US army revoked the ban on the service of transgender troops in the armed forces in 2016, during the second presidential mandate of the Democrat Barack Obama.

Based on this policy, to the Tbroke trans already on duty, it was allowed to declare itself openly And the transgender recruits should have started to be accepted by 1 July 2017. But the first Trump administration postponed that given to 2018 before deciding to completely reverse the route, triggering the criticisms of human rights groups. Trump’s democratic successor, Joe Biden, moved to revoke the restrictions a few days after his settlement in 2021, stating that all qualified Americans to serve should be able to do it.

Although the number of troops Transgender in the US army is rather small, with estimates of about 15,000 On over two million soldiers, their dismissal will end up reducing the US forces active at a time when the country is already facing difficulties in recruiting.

Trump repeatedly promised to build a version of the Iron Dome system that Israel used to break down the missiles launched by Hamas by Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, a system designed for short -range threats but unsuitable to defend themselves from intercontinental missiles that represent the main danger for the United States.