As expected, President Trump signed an executive order late Monday banning transgender people from military service on both medical and moral grounds and revoking President Biden's executive order authorizing them to serve, also in his first week in office in 2021.

The success of the U.S. military depends on "a singular focus on developing the requisite warrior ethos, and the pursuit of military excellence cannot be diluted to accommodate political agendas or other ideologies harmful to unit cohesion" such as the "radical gender ideology" adopted by the prior administration, the order reads. 

"Consistent with the military mission and longstanding [Department of Defense] policy, expressing a false 'gender identity' divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service" due to "the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved" but also because it "conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life," also according to the order.

"A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member," the order also states.

Trump's policy on "high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity" is "inconsistent with the medical, surgical, and mental health constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria" and also "shifting pronoun usage or use of pronouns that inaccurately reflect an individual’s sex."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has 60 days to revise the medical policies relevant to the order and end "invented and identification-based pronoun usage." Items in a shorter 30-day window include banning males and females from using or sharing each other's "sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities" absent "extraordinary operational necessity."

The order puts similar demands on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem relevant to the Coast Guard.

Lambda Legal, which successfully fought Trump's first transgender ban in court, told the Associated Press it will again fight the order.

"Not only is such a move cruel, it compromises the safety and security of our country and is particularly dangerous and wrong," Lambda Legal attorney Sasha Buchert said. "As we promised then, so do we now: we will sue."