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Reverse the policy allowing transgender people to serve

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 4, p. 104. Written by Christopher Miller.

Reverse the policy allowing transgender people to serve

The document says “should”Who acts: President, DODHow: internal managementp. 104 in the PDF
What the document says

“Reverse policies that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 104

The chapter says gender dysphoria is incompatible with the demands of military service and that the use of public money for transgender surgeries, or to facilitate abortion for servicemembers, should be ended. This entry and the one on expelling those with gender dysphoria appear in the same run of recommendations and overlap.

What the document actually says

“Reverse policies that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 104
That sentence, in plain words

Undo the rules that let trans people serve. They should not be allowed in.

What this is about

Transgender people are allowed to serve now. The book says that rule should be undone. It also says public money should not pay for their surgery.

What has happened
Closely matches

Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness

2025-01-27 · 90 FR 8757

The chapter asked that policies allowing transgender individuals to serve be reversed. This order directs revision of the medical standards that govern service on those grounds.

In plain English

The chapter asked to undo the rule that lets trans people serve. This order tells the armed forces to redo their health rules. Those rules decide who may serve on these grounds.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 104.
    https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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    “Reverse the policy allowing transgender people to serve,” Project 2025, chapter 4, p. 104. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch04-reverse-transgender-service/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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