'Transgender' Americans Face New Restrictions

Lookups for transgender spiked on July 26, 2017 after President Trump declared a reversal of the policy permitting transgender people to serve openly in the U.S. military.

The announcement came in a series of tweets:

Transgender has been in use since the early 1970s, and is defined as follows:

of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity differs from the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth; especially : of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity is opposite the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth