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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 21 (Monday, February 3, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8757-8759]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02178]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 21 / Monday, February 3, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14183 of January 27, 2025

                
Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces 
                of the United States, and to ensure the readiness and 
                effectiveness of our Armed Forces, it is hereby 
                ordered:

                Section 1. Purpose. The United States military has a 
                clear mission: to protect the American people and our 
                homeland as the world's most lethal and effective 
                fighting force. Success in this existential mission 
                requires 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.

                Recently, however, the Armed Forces have been afflicted 
                with radical gender ideology to appease activists 
                unconcerned with the requirements of military service 
                like physical and mental health, selflessness, and unit 
                cohesion. Longstanding Department of Defense (DoD) 
                policy (DoD Instruction (DoDI) 6130.03) provides that 
                it is the policy of the DoD to ensure that service 
                members are ``[f]ree of medical conditions or physical 
                defects that may reasonably be expected to require 
                excessive time lost from duty for necessary treatment 
                or hospitalization.'' As a result, many mental and 
                physical health conditions are incompatible with active 
                duty, from conditions that require substantial 
                medication or medical treatment to bipolar and related 
                disorders, eating disorders, suicidality, and prior 
                psychiatric hospitalization.

                Consistent with the military mission and longstanding 
                DoD policy, expressing a false ``gender identity'' 
                divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the 
                rigorous standards necessary for military service. 
                Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions 
                involved, adoption of a gender identity inconsistent 
                with an individual's sex conflicts with a soldier's 
                commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined 
                lifestyle, even in one's personal life. 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.

                For the sake of our Nation and the patriotic Americans 
                who volunteer to serve it, military service must be 
                reserved for those mentally and physically fit for 
                duty. The Armed Forces must adhere to high mental and 
                physical health standards to ensure our military can 
                deploy, fight, and win, including in austere conditions 
                and without the benefit of routine medical treatment or 
                special provisions.

                Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States 
                Government to establish high standards for troop 
                readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, 
                uniformity, and integrity. This policy is inconsistent 
                with the medical, surgical, and mental health 
                constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria. This 
                policy is also inconsistent with shifting pronoun usage 
                or use of pronouns that inaccurately reflect an 
                individual's sex.

                Sec. 3. Definitions. The definitions in the Executive 
                Order of January 20, 2025 (Defending Women from Gender 
                Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to 
                the Federal Government) shall apply to this order.

                Sec. 4. Implementation. (a) Within 60 days of the date 
                of this order, the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) 
                shall update DoDI 6130.03 Volume 1 (Medical Standards 
                for Military Service: Appointment, Enlistment, or 
                Induction

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                (May 6, 2018), Incorporating Change 5 of May 28, 2024) 
                and DoDI 6130.03 Volume 2 (Medical Standards for 
                Military Service: Retention (September 4, 2020), 
                Incorporating Change 1 of June 6, 2022) to reflect the 
                purpose and policy of this Order.

                    (b) The Secretary shall promptly issue directives 
                for DoD to end invented and identification-based 
                pronoun usage to best achieve the policy outlined in 
                section 2 of this order.
                    (c) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the 
                Secretary shall:

(i) identify all additional steps and issue guidance necessary to fully 
implement this order; and

(ii) submit to the President through the Assistant to the President for 
National Security Affairs a report that summarizes these steps.

                    (d) Absent extraordinary operational necessity, the 
                Armed Forces shall neither allow males to use or share 
                sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated 
                for females, nor allow females to use or share 
                sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated 
                for males.
                    (e) Within 30 days of the issuance of the 
                respective updates, directives, and guidance under 
                subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section, the 
                Secretary of Homeland Security shall, with respect to 
                the Coast Guard, issue updates, directives, and 
                guidance consistent with the updates, directives, and 
                guidance issued under subsections (a), (b), and (c) of 
                this section.

                Sec. 5. Implementing the Revocation of Executive Order 
                14004. (a) Pursuant to the Executive Order of January 
                20, 2025 (Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive 
                Orders and Actions), Executive Order 14004 of January 
                25, 2021 (Enabling All Qualified Americans To Serve 
                Their Country in Uniform), has been revoked. 
                Accordingly, all policies, directives, and guidance 
                issued pursuant to Executive Order 14004 shall be 
                rescinded to the extent inconsistent with the 
                provisions of this order.

                    (b) The Secretary and, with respect to the Coast 
                Guard, the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall take 
                all necessary steps to implement the revocations 
                described in subsection (a) of this section and ensure 
                that all military departments and services fully comply 
                with the provisions of this order.

                Sec. 6. Severability. If any provision of this order, 
                or the application of any provision to any person or 
                circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of 
                this order and the application of its provisions to any 
                other persons or circumstances shall not be affected 
                thereby.

                Sec. 7. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.

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                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 27, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-02178
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