WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Transgender advocates who have received vocal support from the Biden administration got a reality check this week when reports emerged that men who call themselves women must still sign up for the military draft under federal law. Women who identify as men, meanwhile, aren’t required to register.
According to guidance from the United States Selective Service System (SSS), “U.S. citizens or immigrants who are born male and changed their gender to female are still required to register.”
“Individuals who are born female and changed their gender to male are not required to register,” the agency states.
Trans women (also known as men) will be forced to sign up for the draft.
Looks like Joe Biden has just officially confirmed what a woman is and what a woman isn’t.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) October 10, 2022
The SSS cites the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in defining “transgender” people as those “whose gender identity and/or expression is different from the sex assigned to them at birth (e.g. the sex listed on an original birth certificate).”
According to the OPM, a “transgender woman” refers to a man who identifies as a woman, and a “transgender man” refers to a woman who identifies as a man.
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Regardless of the OPM definitions and the Biden administration’s vocal support for transgender ideology, however, only a person’s biological sex recorded on a birth certificate will be taken into account in the context of the military draft.
American Military News reported that the SSS policy, which predates the Biden administration, has not been changed to reflect the federal government’s current attitude toward transgenderism.
According to The Daily Wire, reports about the policy gained national attention last week after the agency tweeted out a reminder that young men must register.
The Military Selective Service Act, as it is written, only authorizes the registration of “male persons”. For SSS to be authorized to register women, Congress would have to pass legislation amending the current law. Learn more at https://t.co/Oy2vrqONM6. pic.twitter.com/0TlFqRIIpe
— Selective Service (@SSS_gov) October 3, 2022
The biology-affirming Selective Service policy under the Biden administration is nonetheless more accommodating to so-called “transgender” individuals than the Trump administration’s ban on transgender soldiers serving in the U.S. military, which the U.S. Supreme Court allowed to take effect in 2019. The ban was promptly overturned by U.S. President Joe Biden in 2021.
Meanwhile, reporting about the SSS’ ongoing policy regarding mandatory male registration comes after Senate Democrats last year attempted to require young women ages 18-25 to join their male counterparts in signing up to be called for military service in the case of a national wartime emergency.
The effort was scrapped in December after vehement pushback from conservatives.