Can Donald Trump really ban transgender people from the US military and administration?

Donald Trump wasted no time. As soon as he arrived, Donald Trump signed his first executive orders: withdrawal of the United States from the climate agreement, a pardon for hundreds of Capitol Hill assailants, a state of emergency on the border with Mexico and a brand-new gender policy.
 

“From this day forward, the official policy of the United States government will be that there are only two genders: male and female,” Donald Trump declared as he signed his first executive orders. In concrete terms, it will be impossible, for example, for non-binary people to indicate the gender “X” on passports and visas.
 

During his campaign, the 47th president of the USA, also declared that transgender people would no longer be able to work in the army or the administration. Is this really the case?
 

The dismissal of 15,000 transgender people from the army was not among the multitude of decrees signed on Monday, just after his inauguration. 
 

As head of the military, however, Donald Trump has the power (and the will) to do just that.
 

In 2019, during his first term, the president had already done so: transgender people were no longer accepted into the army. This decision was reversed by Joe Biden.
 

If Donald Trump wants to reinstate the ban on transgender people in the U.S. military, and that means layoffs, he won't be satisfied with an executive order and will have to pass a law to amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He will then have to justify that this category of people poses military-related problems. As a specialist in American constitutional law explained.

 

Transgender people may therefore no longer be recruited by the defense during Donald Trump's term of office. They will have recourse.
 
As for the administration, the purge has begun, with the American president announcing the dismissal of four people.
The announcement was made directly on his own social network, Truth Social, with its famous “You're fired” message. Trump indicated that others would follow.