Reuters has reported that transgender service members and advocates have prepared for months for Trump's executive order. The military has about 1.3 million active-duty personnel, Department of ...

After taking a two-year course in animal welfare and land care, the teenager joined the war with no military training - just a crash course and weapons handling by Ukrainian instructors.

Later, in a 1993 directive, former Defense Secretary Les Aspin used the same justification to bar gays and lesbians from military service. “The Department of Defense has long held that ...

Six transgender members of the military have sued President Trump over ... federal court Tuesday by six current service members and two transgender people seeking to enlist – comes a day after ...

President Trump signed multiple executive orders Monday night that could reshape the management and composition of the military, with provisions addressing diversity measures, transgender service ...

The groups are asking the court to strike the ban down and for an order “prohibiting the categorical exclusion of transgender people from military service.” “Rather than being based on any ...

In addition to the executive order restricting military service for trans people, Trump issued an executive order hours after his inauguration targeting "gender ideology." The order declared that ...

In 2021, former President Joe Biden’s administration took measures that allowed transgender troops to serve, which curtailed an earlier Trump ban banning such service. Transgender military ...

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 ...

The president also ordered the Pentagon to end diversity programs, reinstate many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine and create a new missile defense system. By Zach ...

More than 8,000 service members who were booted from the military or who left on their own over the COVID-19 vaccine could get full back pay and benefits if they seek to be reinstated in the ...

President Trump after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday, Jan. 23. Photo: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images ...