The requirements of Army service are just too rigorous for most transgender members, who often require ongoing medical and mental health treatment for their gender dysphoria. U.S. Army said Friday it is banning transgender people from joining the force, and those who joined to get the government to pay for their sex-change operations will not have that service provided to them at taxpayer expense.
“The #USArmy will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating procedures associated with gender transition for service members,” the Army said in a statement.
Transgenders are individuals who do not live as their biological sex, but who live either as the opposite sex or some other version of sexuality. It’s a different condition than transvestitism, in which men dress up as women as part of sexual arousal. Some versions of transgenderism are a form of autogynephilia, where men are sexually aroused by presenting as females.
“Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria are paused, and all unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for Service members are paused,” the Army continued.
“Individuals with gender dysphoria have volunteered to serve our country and will be treated with dignity and respect,” the statement said.
Most transgenders seek costly sexual hormone treatments and many get their sexual organs surgically removed or mangled. Women who want to be men may have tissue surgically removed from parts of their body to form what serves as a penis, and have their breasts chopped off. These surgeries are referred to by the LGBTQ community as “bottom surgery” and “top surgery.” Men who want to look like women sometimes have their penises chopped off and have a surgically designed pseudo-vagina, which they refer to as “front holes.”
The decision to be transgender requires lifetime medication and comes with serious medical complications, making many transgenders unsuitable for deployment, since their futures may be medically fragile.
The Army said it is bringing the force into compliance with presidential orders as well as orders from the Secretary of Defense. So far, the Army is the only branch to make the policy change public. The other branches are expected to follow the Army’s lead.
On Jan. 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to set a policy for transgender service members within 30 days. The order said “a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.” The order says that transgenders “cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.”
In 2015, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter ordered a review of the U.S. military’s ban on transgender people serving openly. On June 30, 2016, the ban was repealed.
During Trump’s first term, he reinstated the ban on transgenders serving openly in the military. That order was rescinded by President Joe Biden immediately upon taking office in January, 2021.
The transgenders who are currently serving in the Army are not covered by this order, which applies only to new prospective members.
There is no place in the military for the mentally Ill
Amen, try managing them. Commanders are truly lost.
Don’t even mention combat readiness and effectiveness.
YOU CANNOT have mentally ill folks with access or control !!!!!
Tell me the Big 5 adversaries are not laughing at us…
I thought the Army always banned the openly mentally ill from enlisting?
What made you think that? Have you met a US soldier in 2025? They are scraping the barrel they found in the creek at this point. They’ll take a well-trained pig.
It’s unfortunate that the Army allows the transgenders to reenlist. I hope the other branches follow suit.
That is good news.
OMG!!!! FINALLY… THE CLOWN SHOW IS ALMOST OVER!!!
Hopefully the other
branches of our military will
follow. I Pray.
This is the way. The mentally ill should not be allowed to enlist, cannot be depended on on the battlefield and should not be subsidized with taxpayer money.
Trump just took the trannie’s ammo away. Water pistols will be next. Lol…
Not only are they mentally ill, they are not combat ready..or ever will be as they require hormone treatments and medical procedures for the rest of their lives.
Implication: no one in the military takes medication?
One of the requirements in the military is that you’re worldwide deployable. These mentally ill individuals are on the type of drugs that in the past would have prevented them from meeting this requirement. Not every drug prevents worldwide deployment, but the heavy duty drugs these characters are on certainly would unless there was a waiver, which the previous administration would certainly have granted. But in reality, the military is not the place for the mentally ill. I spent almost 32 years in the military, including time in Afghanistan, so I speak from experience.
So do we ban diabetics next, or people with glasses?
No, they don’t have mental illness issues.
Actually, I understand that diabetics haver been barred from serving in all branches for quite some time. They too are not combat ready.
It is not a right to join the military. Nor should it be.
PS, Burt; you made a snarky comment that the current crop of recruits is a poor selection. Trump is raising the bar for admission.. not lowering it.
Putting a stop to the madness.
Let’s review facts. 1) If the draft returns, for whatever reason, a guy only needs to say he believes he’s a female for a get-out-of-draft-free card? 2) As a 38% taxpayer, I claim to have served our country more than 90% of military personnel since only 10% ever engage in direct combat. Without tax money there would be no military. Facts?
The draft will never return. 70 percent of Americans are currently unfit for military service for a variety of reasons. A return to the draft simply is not a viable option today. The Selective Service really needs to be done away with. I say this as someone who served in the military for almost 32 years.
That seems very factual. And easy to draft dodge too.
Normal people don’t want to share space with sexual deviants and the military isn’t any different.
What if you identify as a furry? Can you join the K-9 Corps?
Easy to get out of selective service now!
The end is near for uniformed trannies. Dig your own foxhole.
Good. The Army is a force for lethality and breaking things, not a freak show venue.
Perhaps the Democrat clowns will burn their own cities again in a childish fit of “mostly peaceful protest”. That was SO hilarious! Please! Do it again!
In a foxhole with a mentally ill soldier could lead to accidental friendly fire. Hard to tell who the enemy is.