Trump canceled the programs of diversity and inclusiveness in the army, and also instructed to revise the policy regarding transgender military personnel

US President Donald Trump signed decrees regarding the American army. One of them cancels programs to promote diversity, equality and inclusiveness (Dei) in the armed forces, reports Associated Press.

According to the document, the order is aimed at removing “any remnants” of such initiatives that strive to “promote the system of racial preferences”, which leads to discrimination and promotes “disconnecting concepts”.

In addition, Trump signed a decree that instructs to revise a policy against transgender people in the army. The decree states that the expression of “gender identity”, different from the biological sex at birth, does not comply with military standards, writes Reuters. It is unclear from the document whether the transperson who serve in the army at present will remain in it, and if not, when they are fired.

Reuters notes that during his first presidential term, Trump planned to ban transgender people to serve in the army, but this ban was not fully introduced. The then administration froze the recruitment of transperson into the armed forces, but allowed the current soldiers to stay in the service. Joe Biden canceled these restrictions after taking office.

Trump also signed a decree that allows the military to return to the military, dismissed for refusing to vaccinate from coronavirus. As AP recalls, in 2021 at least 8200 troops were forced to leave the army for refusing to get involved from Covid.

• Almost immediately after the US President, Trump signed a decree sent against transgender people. The document says that the federal government will recognize only two genders - “male and female”, that is, these two genders will be recognized in official documents such as passports and visas. The adopted decree states that "gender is not a synonym for" gender identity "." With a separate decree, Trump stopped all the programs of diversity, equality and inclusiveness (Dei) in the federal government.