Military scrambles to meet Hegseth's order to remove transgender troops | Jefferson City News-Tribune

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Gender dysphoria occurs when a person's biological sex does not match up with their gender identity.
55% : Reinstating that ban has long been a goal for President Donald Trump.
54% : The Pentagon eventually laid out a policy that allowed those currently serving to stay and continue with plans for hormone treatments and gender transition if they had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
54% : It said, at that time, there were 8,980 service members who identified themselves as transgender and 937 had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Is military separation voluntary or not? Hegseth's latest memo sets up two distinct processes, but the details remained a bit uncertain.
42% : " Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives for a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Washington.
38% : When Trump took office again this year, he directed Hegseth to revise the Pentagon's policy on transgender troops.
24% : Six months into his first term, Trump announced he was not going to allow transgender people to serve in the military "in any capacity."

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