Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that he intends to completely exclude transgender people from the ranks of the US armed forces. Special Pentagon committees, which include regular service members, have been given such strict guidelines that the chances of transgender military personnel appearing before them and remaining in the service are almost zero. However, according to data collected by The New York Times from conversations with service members and lawyers, the Navy and Marine Corps commissions voted in nine of 12 cases to keep transgender people in the service. Such a trend has not yet been observed in the army and air force.