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Pete Hegseth has also ordered a halt to accessions for individuals with gender dysphoria.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a halt to transgender procedures for members of the military, according to a memorandum made public on Feb. 10.

Hegseth, in a memo dated Feb. 7, ordered the military to pause โ€œall unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for Service members.โ€

The defense secretary also required a halt to accessions for people with a history of gender dysphoria, or the belief that they are a different gender from their sex at birth.

Both pauses are effective immediately.

Hegseth said in his memo that the Department of Defense โ€œmust ensure it is building โ€˜One Forceโ€™ without subgroups defined by anything other than ability or mission adherenceโ€ and that โ€œefforts to split our troops along lines of identity weaken our Force and make us vulnerable.โ€ He said that such efforts โ€œmust not be tolerated or accommodated.โ€

The memo implements President Donald Trumpโ€™s executive order that restricted openly transgender people from serving in the military. The order said that โ€œthe pursuit of military excellence cannot be diluted to accommodate political agendas or other ideologies harmful to unit cohesionโ€ but that the military has recently โ€œbeen afflicted with radical gender ideology to appease activists unconcerned with the requirements of military service like physical and mental health, selflessness, and unit cohesion.โ€

If a person expresses a gender identity that diverges from his or her sex, then that person cannot satisfy the militaryโ€™s standards, according to the order, which was signed in January.

The previous military policy allowed transgender people to serve.

A group of service members who say theyโ€™re transgender, together with two people who say theyโ€™re transgender and wish to accede to the military, quickly filed a suit over the order. They said it violated the U.S. Constitutionโ€™s protection of equal rights for all.

โ€œPresident Trumpโ€™s ban on transgender people serving in the military discriminates against Plaintiffs based on their sex and based on their transgender status, without lawful justification,โ€ the plaintiffs said.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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