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The Trump administration is trying to purge transgender service members from the military—but it can’t even say how many trans troops are currently serving.
In a Saturday court filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, government lawyers admitted that the Department of Defense does not track service members by gender identity, meaning officials have no concrete data on how many trans troops are in the military. Instead, they relied on a 2016 RAND study, which estimated between 1,320 to 6,630 transgender personnel—numbers nearly a decade old.
“The Department of Defense does not track service members or applicants by gender identity and has no means of searching for the requested information,” government lawyers told the judge in the filing.
Another glaring admission? The administration failed to name any other mental health condition—besides gender dysphoria—that disqualifies someone for “honesty, humility, and integrity,” which the ban cites as justification.
When pressed to provide an example, the government had no answer. Instead, it vaguely referenced “psychiatric and behavioral disorders” without citing a single specific case. The lack of evidence raises serious doubts about why gender dysphoria, the medical condition transgender people suffer before receiving treatment, is being uniquely singled out while other treatable conditions do not trigger an automatic ban.
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In a Saturday court filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, government lawyers admitted that the Department of Defense does not track service members by gender identity, meaning officials have no concrete data on how many trans troops are in the military. Instead, they relied on a 2016 RAND study, which estimated between 1,320 to 6,630 transgender personnel—numbers nearly a decade old.
“The Department of Defense does not track service members or applicants by gender identity and has no means of searching for the requested information,” government lawyers told the judge in the filing.
Another glaring admission? The administration failed to name any other mental health condition—besides gender dysphoria—that disqualifies someone for “honesty, humility, and integrity,” which the ban cites as justification.
When pressed to provide an example, the government had no answer. Instead, it vaguely referenced “psychiatric and behavioral disorders” without citing a single specific case. The lack of evidence raises serious doubts about why gender dysphoria, the medical condition transgender people suffer before receiving treatment, is being uniquely singled out while other treatable conditions do not trigger an automatic ban.
BREAKING: Trump administration admits to judge it doesn’t know how many troops are trans—or why it’s banning them
“The Department of Defense does not track service members or applicants by gender identity,” DOJ lawyers told a judge in a Saturday filing.