(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.
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.
