Again, Donald Trump keeps his promises. The tenant of the White House now attacks what he calls “transgender ideology”, promising to ban the American army. “To ensure that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, we will get rid of our army of transgender ideology,” claimed the President of the United States before elected Republicans gathered on Monday, January 27, in Florida.
The ex-real estate magnet thus signed a decree claiming that the armed forces had been “affected by a radical gender ideology to appease activists” and that “many mental and physical health problems are incompatible with the service active.” The text also stipulates that “the adoption of a gender identity incompatible with the sex of an individual contradicts the commitment of a soldier to an honorable, truthful and disciplined lifestyle, even in personal life”.
This decree, reported for the first time by the New York Postand intended according to an advisor to the president to eliminate “gender extremism”, will prohibit the use of “invented” pronouns in the army as well as the use of bathrooms, changing rooms or rooms of the opposite sex. He also promises to prohibit the teaching of gender ideologies in military academies.
15,000 transgenderness in the army
This decision appears to be an important setback for the LGBTQ community, while the US military had raised the ban for transgender people to serve in their ranks in 2016, during the second term of Democratic President Barack Obama. Under this policy, the transgender soldiers already in service were authorized to do so openly, and the new recruits had to begin to be accepted from July 1, 2017. The number of transgender people in the US military would be some 15,000 Out of around two million soldiers, according to estimates.
“Even if the decree does not immediately exclude anyone from the military service, it gives the Pentagon 60 days to update its policy in terms of medical standards and 30 days to present revised directives on how to implement the vision of this decree “, specifies the American daily New York Times. During his farewell speech at the beginning of the month, the secretary of outgoing defense of Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin, had seemed to criticize Donald Trump’s projects by declaring: “Any army which refuses qualified patriots eager to serve only Reduce and weaken. “
The army must “win wars, not be woke”
This new decree is part of the transphobic policy of Donald Trump which had already attacked last week to the programs of diversity, equity and inclusion within the federal government, while limiting government recognition of the kind of An individual has his sex at birth. Note that questions relating to transgender persons have agitated American policy in recent years, states controlled by Democrats and Republicans who have adopted opposite positions on policies ranging from medical treatment to books on the subject authorized in public libraries or school.
Faced with the elected officials of his party, the US head of state also hammered that he was going to “prevent indoctrination” of the American soldiers “by the extreme left ideologies such as the critical theory of the race”. This concept, which initially designates a research current, is used in a pejorative manner by the conservatives to denounce the lessons of awareness of racism. Donald Trump actually Taken another decree eliminating recruitment policies that encouraged diversity in the military ranks. As the Bbcthe Republican said during his campaign in June that the army’s goal was to “win wars, not to be Woke”.
Non-vaccinated soldiers against the reintegrated covid
“We will offer a complete reintegration into each soldier who has been excluded from the armed forces because of compulsory vaccination against COVVI-19, in his rank and previous level of treatment,” said Donald Trump on Monday, before signing a decree going in this sense. During his inauguration speech, he said that these soldiers had been “unjustly expelled”.
Bloomberg Specifies that around 8,000 soldiers, or less than 1 % of the army, had been sent back for refusing to be vaccinated against the COVID during the compulsory vaccination period, from August 2021 to January 2023. , a former senior Pentagon official judges “concern”, which could create a precedent to refuse other vaccines administered to the military, such as those against yellow fever or smallpox.
The announcement of these different decrees occurs while Donald Trump’s candidate at the head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, was sworn in as a defense secretary on Saturday. His appointment was confirmed despite the concerns aroused by his lack of experience and his alleged history of excessive consumption of alcohol and domestic violence.