Restrict transgender military service

Project 2025 recommends reversing transgender military-service policies. Executive Order 14183 and Defense Department implementation imposed service restrictions based on gender dysphoria and related policy.

Project 2025 said

Reverse policies that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military. Gender dysphoria is incompatible with the demands of military service, and the use of public monies for transgender surgeries or to facilitate abortion for servicemembers should be ended.

Chapter: 4 · Department of Defense
Author: Christopher Miller
Department: U.S. Department of Defense
Printed page: 104
PDF page: 136
Last verified: August 16, 2026

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Government did

Match: Direct Match

Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness

The order established a military policy concerning gender dysphoria and directed Defense Department implementation.

Action type: Executive Order
Identifier: Executive Order 14183
Current status: Under Litigation
In effect: Yes
Last verified: August 16, 2026

Why this match

Executive Order 14183 and Defense implementation directly align with reversing transgender military-service policies based on gender dysphoria.

How this can change

Reversibility: Moderate

Presidential Rescission

A future President may change the policy; the Defense Department implements it; Congress may legislate and courts may review constitutional and statutory claims.

Authority: Congress · President · Agency · Courts

Litigation

Shilling v. Trump

Supreme Court of the United States · 24A1030

Current status: Preliminary injunction stayed; merits review not resolved by the stay order

On May 6, 2025, the Supreme Court stayed the Western District of Washington preliminary injunction pending appellate and possible Supreme Court review.

Injunction scope: The Washington preliminary injunction is stayed under the Supreme Court order.

Appeal: Supreme Court stay issued May 6, 2025

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