I can’t find anything to support that.

The order as quoted refers to new joins:

> “Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria are paused,” Hegseth said in a memo dated Feb. 7 and filed on Monday with the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

Which is consistent with Trump’s order from his first term that allowed transgender troops already serving to remain.

The only quote on current troops I found was:

> Hegseth said individuals with gender dysphoria already in the military would be “treated with dignity and respect,” and the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness would provide additional details on what this would mean.

Do you have a source for that claim?

Yes. That was part of one of the recent executive orders he signed [1] which was dictating not only that care for transgender individuals in the military should cease but also that expressing a different gender identity was not compatible with being in the military. It's not even particularly vague about it. The military issued guidance against the executive order to not take adverse action, essentially only adopting the bathroom bill portion of it [2].

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prio...

[2] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276...