In 2014, the Department of Defense began a broad review of transgender military service. Following this review, in 2016, the Obama Administration announced a policy of transgender inclusion in the military. However, in 2017, before enactment of that policy, President Trump announced the reinstatement of a ban on transgender military service. Although, in the last five years, these events have garnered much media attention, sociologists have generally left them unexplored. In this article, I begin the process of incorporating transgender military experience into sociological discussions by examining how transgender service members navigate their uncertain status vis‐à‐vis military service. In so doing, I explore how transgender personnel might be “doing transgender” (Connell, Gender & Society24(1):31) in the context of shifting norms about who can and cannot officially exist within the ranks of the military as well as possibilities for future research examining transgender military experience more broadly.

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“欢迎！哦，等等……”不确定时期的跨性别兵役

2014年，美国国防部开始对跨性别兵役进行广泛审查。经过这次审查，奥巴马政府于2016年宣布了跨性别纳入军队的政策。但是，2017年，在颁布该政策之前，特朗普总统宣布恢复禁止跨性别兵役的禁令。尽管在过去的五年中，这些事件引起了媒体的广泛关注，但社会学家普遍对此未予探讨。在本文中，我将通过研究跨性别服务人员如何克服其不确定地位来应对社会服务，从而开始将跨性别军事经验纳入社会学讨论。在这样做的过程中，我探索了跨性别人员如何“做跨性别”（Connell，性别与社会24（1）：31）的背景下，关于谁能或不能正式存在于军队中的规范不断变化，以及未来研究可能更广泛地研究跨性别军事经验的可能性。