WASHINGTON - The Pentagon will immediately start removing up to 1,000 publicly identified trans service personnel from the military and give others 30 days to self-identify under new directives issued Thursday.

In a Supreme Court ruling Tuesday, allowing the Trump administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, the Defense Department will begin to pass medical records to identify others who have not stepped up.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who issued the latest memorandum, made his point clear after the court's ruling.

Hegseth wrote in an article on X: "Not trans @tod anymore.

"There are no more pronouns," he said at a special operations force meeting in Tampa. "There are no more guys with clothes. We've done S ---."

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Department officials said it was difficult to determine exactly how many trans service members were, but medical records would show that those diagnosed with gender irritability, showing symptoms or being treated.

These troops will then be forced to withdraw from service involuntarily. No one can allow the diagnosis. Gender irritability occurs when a person's biological gender does not match gender identity.

Officials said 4,240 soldiers were in active service as of December 9, 2024, and gender irritability was diagnosed in the National Guard and reserves. But they admit that the number may be higher.

The total number is about 2.1 million troops.

The memo was released Thursday in a mirror, issued in February, but several lawsuits were caught in any action.

The Supreme Court ruled that the government could enforce bans on trans people in the military, while other legal challenges were conducted. Three liberal judges in the court said they would suspend the policy.

Most people or the dissenting justices did not explain their votes, which is not uncommon in emergency appeals.

When the initial Pentagon directive was released earlier this year, it gave service members 30 days to self-identify. Since then, about 1,000 people have done so.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement that the 1,000 troops who already identified themselves “will begin a voluntary separation process.”

Under the new guidelines, active-duty military personnel must voluntarily identify themselves to the department by June 6, and the National Guard and Reserve forces will have to be by July 7.

While it may be difficult to see which units have changed their gender identity in the military record, it is easier to determine who gets a diagnosis of gender irritability, as this will become part of their medical records, like any medication they are taking.

A defense official said that between 2015 and 2024, the total cost of psychotherapy, hormone therapy for gender therapy, gender-affirming surgery and other treatments for service members was about $52 million, and he spoke on anonymously to discuss personnel issues.

Pentagon officials defended the ban in an earlier memorandum, saying: “Medical, surgical and mental health restrictions, gender dysphagia, for individuals with current diagnosis or medical history or exhibiting consistent with symptoms, are incompatible with the high mental and physical standards required for military service.”

The new Pentagon policy will allow limited exemptions.

This includes transgender personnel trying to enlist, who can directly support combat activities, or there is no clinical clinical significance if existing service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria can prove that they support them in support of specific combat needs, from no transition to the gender they identified and prove that they stabilized biological gender in 36 months. ”

If an exemption is issued, the applicant will still face situations where his biological sexual behavior can be recognized only in the bathroom facilities, sleeping areas or even officially recognized, such as being called "Mr." or "Mrs.".