Trump’s flimsy reasons for trans military ban disproven in new study

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Trump's flimsy reasons for trans military ban disproven in new study

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/new-paper-dismantles-the-flimsy-justifications-for-banning-trans-military-members/ 🔗

Daniel Villarreal (18 March 2026)

A recently published study on trans military health contradicts the administration's reasons for its ban on trans military members: namely, that trans military members are undeployable, impair unit cohesion, and incur unreasonably high healthcare costs. The study found that none of these claims is true.

Concurrently, the presidential administration recently asked for a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit by active duty transgender Air Force members suing to win back their revoked military retirement benefits, saying that the members must first leave the armed forces before they have a right to sue over revoked benefits.

Both the study and the court case originated from the president's January 2025 executive order seeking to force all trans military members out of the armed services. The order says that trans identity is a mental disorder that is selfish, dishonorable, deceitful, undisciplined, and unfit for military service.

A new paper recently published in the International Journal of Transgender Health analyzed 58 empirical studies on trans service in the U.S. military and found that the administration's justifications for the ban were baseless.

The study found that the U.S. military spends about $5 million annually on healthcare for trans military members, and only $1 million of that amount on gender-affirming care. The military spends much more on "obesity, musculoskeletal injuries, pregnancy and childbirth, vision problems, and the ordinary ailments of a large, young population," the aforementioned publication noted.

... no evidence demonstrates that trans military members are less deployable than their peers who are recovering from other routine medical conditions, like injuries and postpartum care. The paper also found no evidence demonstrating that trans service members harm unit cohesion.

[Athena]

The military ban is just a bone tossed to Trump's base. "Here focus on the evil trans movement while I take more from you".

The results are still horrendous for the trans community but Trump is just looking for more people for his base to hate so he can be seen as doing something.