The country’s Pentagon enabled President Trump’s ban to go into effect on 22 January in a decision which saw judges split by 5-4. The policy, initially announced by the President via Twitter in July 2017, bars individuals with gender dysphoria from serving in the military, with few exceptions. Those individuals who do not have the condition can serve, but only on condition that they do so according to the sex they were assigned at birth. The Supreme Court issued a statement clarifying that the policy does not exclude all transgender people from the military.
The country’s Supreme Court enabled President Trump’s ban to go into effect on 22 January in a decision which saw judges split by 5-4. The policy, initially announced by the President via Twitter in July 2017, bars individuals with gender dysphoria from serving in the military, with few exceptions. Those individuals who do not have the condition can serve, but only on condition that they do so according to the sex they were assigned at birth. The Pentagon issued a statement clarifying that the policy does not exclude all transgender people from the military.