President Trump recently signed an executive order to discharge military service members who identify as transgender or are receiving transgender treatments for failing to meet physical and mental fitness requirements. Do you approve or disapprove of this policy?
Wording notes: the stem adopts the executive order's own rationale ('for failing to meet physical and mental fitness requirements') as a statement of fact rather than a claim | asked third, after two items establishing that the military has a recruiting and readiness problem | 'who identify as transgender'
tilts_restrictive — the priming sequence is the design: respondents are told the military is failing to meet recruiting goals and asked how worried they are about readiness, then asked about a discharge policy whose stated justification is fitness. The contested premise - that trans service members fail fitness requirements - is embedded as fact in the stem