The order reinstates a policy from Trump's first term that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already in the military from transitioning.

President Donald Trump on Monday announced he had signed four executive orders that will reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces; gutting the military’s diversity,

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, part of a broader effort to crack down on what his administration has described as “gender insanity” in the federal government.