The Pentagon on Wednesday announced adjustments to its policy on transgender troops, adding a ban on gender identity discrimination and broader health care. The settings will take effect in 30 days.
President Joe Biden, in an order in January, overreulled the Trump-era ban on transgender troops serving in the military and ordered the Department of Defense to report to the president on progress in implementing the directive in 60 days.
The review ended last week and the Pentagon announced Wednesday’s adjustments to coincide with trans Visibility Day.
According to Wednesday’s instructions, the Pentagon’s revised policies restore 2016 service rules: they prohibit discrimination in gender identity and provide a means to access the military in its self-identified sex and provide a path for others providing medical remedy and gender remedy services. . transition to self-identified sex
The transgender troop ban announced through former President Donald Trump in 2017 and came into effect in 2019.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in his confirmation, said he supported the cancellation of the ban and that if he “qualified to serve and can meet the standards, he will be allowed to serve. “