While covering a hearing over the Trump administration’s executive order targeting transgender troops, Fox News host Will Cain argued that U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes' line of questioning — in which she noted that the order ignored the existence of intersex people — was “ignorant."
According to the Center for American Progress, up to an estimated 1.7% of the population in the U.S. has an intersex trait and 0.5% of people have “clinically identifiable sexual or reproductive variations.” According to the Williams Institute, 0.6% of those 13 and older and 0.5% of all adults in the U.S. identify as transgender.
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump repealed a Biden-era executive order that allowed transgender Americans to serve in the military. One week later, the president signed an executive order asserting: