The Pentagon revealed the specifics of its new transgender troop policy in a court filing Wednesday that says any service member or recruit who has been diagnosed with or treated for gender dysphoria is disqualified from serving unless they can prove they meet a specific warfighting need and adhere to severe restrictions on their day-to-day behavior.
The policy memo was included in the latest court filing in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order against transgender military service, one of many hot-button issues the president made a priority to address on his first days in office.
Like the executive order, the policy filed Wednesday suggests that the lethality and integrity of the military is inconsistent with what transgender personnel go through as they transition to the gender they identify with, and issues an edict that gender is immutable, unchanging during a person's life".
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