Trump campaign denies reports of transgender expulsion, saying 'no decision has been made on this issue'

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office in January, his administration has reportedly outlined plans to implement certain policy changes that will impact transgender individuals in a variety of areas.

But Trump campaign spokeswoman and White House press secretary-to-be, Caroline Leavitt, responded Wednesday to a question about whether President Trump would remove transgender service members from the military following international reports this week, saying, Nothing has been decided.”

“These anonymous sources are speculative and have no idea what they're actually saying,” Levitt told Fox News Digital. It should not be considered official,” he said in a statement.

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SPARTA Pride, a nonprofit organization that advocates for transgender service members, told Military.com this week that there are about 15,000 transgender service members stationed around the world, including in combat zones.

In July 2017, during President Trump's first term, he announced on Twitter that the United States would no longer allow transgender individuals to serve in the military “in any capacity.” Previously, the Obama administration allowed transgender people to serve openly in the military and receive taxpayer-funded gender-affirming treatment while serving.

After announcing the reversal of the policy, President Trump cited “massive health care costs and disruption” as the reason. After a legal challenge, in 2018 only individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria will be barred from military service unless they have undergone a sex change and are “stable in their biological sex.” A revised policy was implemented.

In January 2019, the Supreme Court upheld the ban amid mounting legal challenges. By the time President Joe Biden took office, he had rolled back Trump-era regulations.

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U.S. military personnel walk on the tarmac at the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition (ADEX) in Seongnam, south of Seoul, on October 18, 2021. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP, Getty Images) (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

Throughout his presidential campaign this campaign, Trump also suggested that certain changes would be made to so-called gender-affirming care for minors.

In a video posted to Truth Social in February 2023, President Trump said that his plan to “stop the chemical, physical, and psychological mutilation of young people” includes any program that supports or facilitates gender reassignment. He said that includes issuing an executive order directing all federal agencies to cease operations. At any age.

“I call on Congress to permanently end federal taxpayer dollars being used to facilitate and pay for these procedures and to pass legislation in all 50 states to ban child sexual mutilation,” Trump said in a video. I request you to do so.”

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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says Assembly Bill 377 “ignores” a 2015 policy created by the Wisconsin High School Athletic Association (WIAA) to govern the eligibility of transgender high school athletes in the state. he claimed. (Alison Diener/AFP via Getty Images)

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President Trump's stance on transgender issues was also front and center in the final stages of his campaign, when his team aired an ad targeting biological men in women's sports. The ad focused on men in women's sports and Vice President Kamala Harris' accomplishments in spearheading gender reassignment procedures for incarcerated people in California.

“Kamala is for them, President Trump is for you,” the narrator of Trump's campaign ad said. Experts say the TV spots had a huge impact on swing voters.