多位知情人士向美国广播公司证实，总统乔·拜登预计将于周一签署一项行政命令，解除五角大楼对跨性别军人的禁令。

这项有争议的禁令是由前任总统宣布的唐纳德·特朗普总统在2017年通过一条推文，推翻了奥巴马政府允许跨性别者公开服务的政策。

知情人士称，新任国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀将出席周一的白宫仪式，届时将签署行政命令。

“禁令将于明天正式解除，”一位熟悉该行政命令签署过程的人士表示。

拜登在总统竞选期间曾表示，他赞成废除这项禁令。

2020年5月，拜登曾表示，他将指示五角大楼让“跨性别服务成员在军队中公开服役，不受歧视。”

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档案图片:五角大楼建筑是在美国弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿看到的，2020年10月9日。

“他们可以像其他人一样直射，”他补充道。

奥斯汀在上周的确认听证会上表示，他将支持废除禁令的努力。

“我支持总统推翻禁令的计划，”奥斯汀告诉参议院军事委员会。“如果你身体健康，有资格发球，并且能够保持标准，你应该被允许发球，你可以期待我会全程支持。”

白宫和五角大楼拒绝对该行政命令发表评论。

目前尚不清楚有多少变性人在军队服役，但一些倡导团体表示，这一数字可能高达15000人。

2016年，国防部长阿什·卡特宣布了一项政策，允许变性人公开在美国军队服役。

但在2017年7月，特朗普发布了一系列推特，立即禁止了此类服务。

这些推文让五角大楼官员措手不及，包括特朗普的第一任国防部长詹姆斯·马蒂(James Mattis)。

两年后，他很快实施了审查，导致五角大楼重新制定了对开放变性服务的禁令。

新政策要求军人和那些希望参军的人遵守与他们的生物性别相关的标准。

服务人员被诊断为性别焦虑，定义为“一个人的经验/表达的性别和指定的性别之间的明显不一致”...与临床上显著的痛苦和功能障碍相关的患者”不再被允许接受性别转换的外科手术，除非他们目前正在接受治疗。

接受过激素或与过渡相关的医学手术的变性人被禁止参军，即使他们能证明自己喜欢的性别是稳定的。

Biden to lift Pentagon's ban on transgender people serving in military

Multiple people familiar with the matter confirm to ABC News that PresidentJoe Bidenis expected to sign an executive order on Monday that will lift the Pentagon’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.

The controversial ban was announced by formerPresident Donald Trumpin 2017 through a tweet and reversed the Obama administration’s policy to allow open service by transgender people.

New Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will be on hand at the White House ceremony on Monday, where the executive order will be signed, said the individuals familiar with the matter.

“The ban will be officially lifted tomorrow,” said one of the individuals familiar with the signing of the executive order.

Biden had said during the presidential campaign that he favored repealing the ban.

In May 2020, Biden had said he would direct the Pentagon to let "transgender service members serve openly and free from discrimination in the military."

"They can shoot as straight as anybody else can shoot," he added.

At his confirmation hearing last week Austin had said he would support an effort to repeal the ban.

"I support the president's plan to overturn the ban," Austin told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "If you're fit and you're qualified to serve and you can maintain the standards, you should be allowed to serve, and you can expect that I will support that throughout."

The White House and the Pentagon declined to comment on the executive order.

It is unclear how many transgender people serve in the military, though some advocacy groups have said it could be as high as 15,000 individuals.

In 2016, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced a policy that would allow transgender individuals to serve in the U.S. military openly.

But in July 2017, Trump issued a series of tweets that immediately banned such service.

The tweets blindsided Pentagon officials, including James Mattis, Trump's first defense secretary.

He soon implemented reviews that led the Pentagon to re-institute a ban on open transgender service two years later.

The new policy required service members and those wishing to join the military to adhere to the standards associated with their biological sex.

Service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria, defined as "a marked incongruence between one's experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender ... associated with clinically significant distress and impairment of functioning," were no longer allowed to receive medical surgeries for gender transition unless they were currently in the process of receiving medical treatment.

Transgender individuals who had received hormones or medical surgery related to their transition were barred from joining the military, even if they could prove stability in their preferred gender.