U.S. Army Will Alter Troops’ Birth Records To Only Show Their Sex At Birth

A new memo from the U.S. Army asserts that transgender soldiers’ birth records will now only show their sex at birth.

“Commanders will take immediate measures to update personnel records and administrative systems to reflect biological sex for all individuals,” the memo declares, adding that pronoun use “must reflect their biological sex,” Reuters reported. The memo avers that a person’s sex is “unchanging during a person’s life,” echoing a February 26 Defense Department memo that stated, “The Department only recognizes two sexes: male and female. An individual’s sex is immutable, unchanging during a person’s life. All Service members will only serve in accordance with their sex.”

Access to “intimate spaces” will be determined by the biological sex of the soldier; “Commanders will ensure all such shared intimate spaces will be clearly designated for either male, female, or family use,” the document stated. Additionally, commanders must address troops as “sir” or “ma’am.”

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On May 6, the Supreme Court stayed an order from U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle in Washington state, who issued an injunction barring the Trump administration from prohibiting transgender people in the military. President Biden had signed an executive order that permitted transgender soldiers to serve openly in the military, but the day President Trump was inaugurated in 2025, he revoked the order and issued another executive order days later, instructing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to ban “individuals with gender dysphoria” from the military. DOD issued the ban on February 26.

Navy Commander Emily Shilling, a man identifying as a woman, had challenged Trump’s executive order, filing a federal lawsuit. A district court in Washington state then barred Trump’s executive order. But the Supreme Court stayed the order. “The district court’s injunction cannot be squared with the substantial deference that the Department’s professional military judgments are owed,” Trump’s DOJ wrote. “In suggesting that experience under the policies of the last Administration shows that service by individuals with gender dysphoria does not present meaningful risks … the court improperly second-guessed the military’s own assessment of those risks.”