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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an immediate pause on gender-affirming care for all active duty service members in a ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an immediate pause on gender-affirming medical care for all active-duty service ...

The Pentagon has reinstated a ban on new transgender service members in the U.S. military. Donald Trump first introduced the ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon is pausing transgender procedures for service members and ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has instructed the U.S. armed forces to reject transgender Americans who want to serve in the ...

The Pentagon's move from the Trump administration is the latest volley in a controversy over the service of transgender ...

The U.S. military will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating ...

The order's provisions include barring federally funded insurance programs, such as Medicaid and TRICARE, from covering ...

All military services must pause accepting recruits with histories of gender dysphoria and halt some gender-affirming health care for transgender service members, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

Gender-affirming surgery is already banned in military healthcare systems but the new memo appears to target hormone therapy ...