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The US Army has announced that it will not accept transgender people who hope to recruit or facilitate gender confirmation procedures for active service members.

The memorandum submitted in the US District Court in Washington, DC, is the latest effort by the administration of President Donald Trump for the decline in protection for transgender individuals.

“In effect immediately, all new accessories for individuals who have a history of gender transportation are stopped,” said Defense Minister Beit Higseth in the memo, which was dated on February 7.

“All non -scheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures are definitely stopped or facilitate the transition of gender for service members.”

The Trump administration has framing the restriction of the rights of transgender people in the army as a necessary step to ensure “military readiness”. It also renounced what he described as promoting the “radical gender ideology” within the armed forces, which is part of its largest campaign against diversity initiatives.

However, critics say that the Monday’s memo and related measures aim to erase the identity of transgender people, to perpetuate discrimination, and to force sexual service members to live in secrecy and fear.

Defenders say that up to 15,000 transgender people are currently serving in the US military, out of 1.3 million members of active service.

An ongoing campaign

In the United States, there is a relatively widespread support for transgender soldiers and military personnel. Research Company Gallop A published a report On Monday, it was found that 58 percent of Americans agreed to allow the public transgressive people to serve the army.

But Gallup indicated that this number has decreased from its previous level. In 2019, for example, the approval rate was 71 percent. However, by 2021, it decreased to 66 percent – then to 58 percent this year.

The company noted that the Republicans, to a lesser extent, the independents had decreased the number.

Trump has been repeatedly taken to people who are transgender during that time period. During his first term, from 2017 to 2021, he similarly moved to the transgender people from military service.

“After consulting with the generals and military experts, please know that the United States government will not accept or allow,” books More than two Pillars In 2017, “sexually transformed individuals to serve in any capacity in the US military.”

Former President Joe Biden canceled this restriction. But when Trump took office for a second term this year, he renewed his campaign against transgender people, and signed Executive order On his first day, his back denies the existence of a “self -identified identity”.

A few days later, on January 27, another signed Executive orderSpecifically directed to the army.

“The man’s assertion is a woman, and his condition is that others honor this falsehood, does not agree with humility and self -denial required from a member of the service,” says it.

On February 3, a group of civil rights organizations submitted a temporary application Restriction arrangement Against Trump’s decision, on behalf of six members in the service of transgender people and two seeks to recruit.

They submitted their petition to the US provincial court in Washington, DC. As part of their complaints, they included a 28 -year -old woman, Miriam Berluson, who works in the US military.

According to what was told that she should be classified as a man or expelled from the army. She also explained that she was directed to leave the women’s sleep area and sleep on a bed in an empty semester instead, in addition to preventing him from using women’s water courses.

“I spent more than half of my life in the army, including fighting in Afghanistan,” said army sergeant Kate Cole, another claimant in the lawsuit, in a press statement.

“The removal of qualified sexual soldiers, gay, means immigration from experienced employees who fill the main positions and cannot be easily replaced, putting the burden on our fellow soldiers who left behind. This is only a mistake – and it shakes the stability of our armed forces.”

However, the campaign to restrict the rights of transgender people exceed the army.

On February 5, Trump also signed a threat to the financing of schools that allowed sexually transgender women to participate in women’s sports.

In Utah on Monday, the state legislative body agreed to a draft law that prohibits sexual university students from living in students’ homes that are compatible with their sexual identity, which is the first restriction of its kind to target sexually transgender people in university housing.

One of the Republican lawmakers said during the discussion on the draft law: “If you are not decent,” said one of the Republican lawmakers during the discussion on the draft law.