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The new orders prevent transgender people from openly serving in the military, greenlight the process of developing a missile defense shield to protect the U.S. and reinstates service members that voluntarily left or were forced out of the military over COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Trump also penned an expected EO that would “abolish” every diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office within the departments of Defense and Homeland Security (DHS), which houses the U.S. Coast Guard. All four were signed late Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first formal day in office.

The president revoked an executive order from his predecessor, former President Biden, penned in 2021 that allowed transgender people to serve in the military. He also directed Hegseth to set new military preparedness requirements.

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On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order titled, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” It reflects what I and many other rank-and-file Democrats have been saying for years—that “gender identity” ideology robs women and girls of female-only spaces and denies the material reality of sex. Although necessarily somewhat limited due to the limited nature of federal executive authority, the order is likely to have sweeping effects across the country, in ways that will be welcome to many voters, including Democrats.

The order undoes countless other orders, memos, and guidance documents previously issued by the Biden administration, which redefined the word “sex” to include the nebulous concept of “gender identity” for all purposes under federal administrative law. The purpose of those orders, memos, and guidance documents was to accommodate the demands of people (mostly men) who claim to be the opposite sex, a member of neither sex, or a member of a third sex class that does not exist (collectively known as “transgender people”).

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