President Biden has signed an executive order that reverses Trump administration policy against transgender military service and prohibits discharges based on diagnoses of gender dysphoria, but stops short of explicitly stating transgender people will be allowed to enlist in the armed forces, according to a fact sheet issued Monday by the White House. “President Biden believes that gender identity should not be a bar to military service, and that America’s strength is found in its diversity,” the fact sheet says.
The executive order is aimed at reversing policy instituted by former President Trump, who tweeted in 2017 he’d ban transgender people from the armed forces “in any capacity.” Former Defense Secretary James Mattis subsequently