Secretary of Defense Replies

If this is true — we will find any way possible to stop it.

Taxpayers should NEVER pay for this lunacy.

As we stated — before a rogue judge blocked it — “service members with gender dysphoria are disqualified from military service.”

Zero readiness reasons for trans troops. https://t.co/MMzCvxbJRL

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) April 25, 2025

👇 US Senator for Missouri

It's impossible to overstate how absurd this is.

You can't serve in the military if you have asthma.

But because of two federal judges, we have to bend over backwards to accommodate a "condition" that requires lifelong hormones and multiple surgeries?

We need to fight this. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/iffUifYo7A

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) April 25, 2025

At the outset of his administration, President Trump signed a common-sense executive order barring transgender military service. In February, the Pentagon issued a memo affirming that people with a history of gender dysphoria are "incompatible" with U.S. military service. pic.twitter.com/KXBSEbqbj3

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) April 25, 2025

Two federal judges didn't just block the policy—they ordered the Pentagon to immediately resume providing "gender-affirming medical care" to transgender military service members.

That includes hormone therapy and sex-change surgeries. pic.twitter.com/10f0cri1dA

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) April 25, 2025

You can't serve in the military if you have asthma, braces, or a peanut allergy. You can't serve if you take certain kinds of acne medications, or if you've taken ADHD meds within the past year.

But if you're a man who is convinced he's a woman, the military has to indulge you.

This is an attempt to restore—by judicial fiat—one of the more patently insane efforts to transform our federal government into a vehicle for left-wing activism.

For the past four years, every government institution—including the military—has embraced pedal-to-the-metal leftism.

There's no rational argument for something like this. They barely even pretended it had anything to do with military readiness. It's pure ideology.

And they were doing it even as they were firing healthy young soldiers who didn't want to take the vaccine.

President Trump was right to sign this executive order. Pete Hegseth was right to implement it. And the entire administration is right to fight this ridiculous effort to block them from prioritizing military readiness over left-wing social engineering.