Also on Biden's first day in office, his press secretary, Jen Psaki, announced in a press conference that the President would soon reverse the government's ban on transgender people from serving openly in the military, though a specific date for this action was not announced. Although Biden had originally said that reversing the ban would be an action taken "on day one", this had been unable to happen due to the fact that his nominee for Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, had still not been confirmed yet, although it is unknown whether or not that is the reason why Biden had not taken action on the ban yet. This ban was reversed by executive order on the 25th of January 2021, allowing transgender people to serve in the military again.