Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
118th Congress
PROHIBITION ON [...] RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY. —None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise mad available for fiscal year 2025 or any fiscal year thereafter for the Department of Defense Education Activity may be obligated or expended to purchase, maintain, or display in a school library or classroom— [...] (2) any material that espouses, advocates, or promotes radical gender ideology.
The term "radical gender ideology" means any concept, teaching, instruction, or curriculum that— (A) states or suggests biological sex is a social construct; (B) states or suggests biological sex is fluid, interchangeable, or exists beyond the binary of male and female; (C) states or suggests that an individual can be trapped in the wrong body or have a different identity than that of their biological sex; (D) encourages, promotes, or advocates the use of personal pronouns unaligned with an individual’s biological sex; or (E) encourages, promotes, or advocates hormone replacement, puberty blockers, or gender reassignment surgery as a safe, necessary, or optional treatment for an individual.
PROHIBITIONS ON PROVISION OF GENDER TRANSITION SERVICES THROUGH AN EXCEPTIONAL FAMILY MEMBER PROGRAM OF THE ARMED FORCES
TRICARE program: prohibition on coverage and furnishment of certain gender transition surgeries and related services