Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness

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

(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.

    (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.