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Directive-type Memorandum-19-004, "Military Service by Transgender Persons and Persons with Gender Dysphoria", was a memorandum issued by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) prohibiting most transgender individuals from serving or enlisting in the United States Armed Forces and the DoD.
Presidential Memorandum of August 25, 2017. The Presidential Memorandum on Military Service by Transgender Individuals, officially the Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, is the 27th presidential memorandum signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on August 25, 2017.
In mid-March 2015, a doctor and major in the United States Army Medical Corps named Jamie Lee Henry became the first known active-duty Army officer to come out as transgender, and the first and only active-duty service member who has changed her name and gender within the United States military, to her knowledge and to the knowledge of other ...
Estimates about the number of trans service members in the U.S. range from an estimated 8,000, per an article in the National Institute of Health, to some 15,500, according to UCLA School of Law ...
A transgender military pilot posted a "proof of life" video to refute social media rumors that she flew the helicopter involved in the plane crash that killed 67 people.
Executive Order 14168, titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government", is an executive order issued by Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, [1] the day of his second inauguration as president of the United States.
A few other scattered positive developments also occurred in this period. In 1975 Minneapolis became the first city in the United States to pass trans-inclusive civil rights protection legislation. [4] In 1977 Renée Richards, a transsexual woman, was granted entry to the U.S. Open (in tennis) after a ruling in her favor by the New York Supreme ...
As of November 27th, 2024, 48 anti-trans bills have been passed across 17 states, while 84 are being considered at the federal level, and a total of 559 have been considered this year. [ 215 ] These bills aim to re-define sex, restrict access to life saving medical care , to education, to sports, to bathrooms, and to marriage and military ...