“We banned transgender” people from serving in the military.”
What PolitiFact found
After years of legal challenges, Trump enacted a policy banning transgender people from joining the military but allowing current members to continue serving if they met certain criteria. Joe Biden rescinded the policy.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (former president of the United States) made this claim around 4 March 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 March 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
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