The order reinstates a policy from Trump's first term that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already in the military from transitioning.

President Donald Trump on Monday announced he had signed four executive orders that will reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces; gutting the military’s diversity,

Leading LGBTQ+ advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of six active duty service members over the Trump administration's ban on transgender military service.