WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee is siding with President Donald Trump on his order to bar transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.



In a resolution passed at its annual winter meeting Friday, the committee voted to support Trump's August demand that military recruitment policy consider transgender as "a disqualifying psychological and physical" condition



Trump's order has suffered legal setbacks. Three federal courts have ruled against the ban, prompting the RNC to take the position standing with Trump.



An effect of one court ruling was that the military would be required to allow transgender people to enlist beginning Jan. 1.



The issue has divided the GOP. Some Republicans in the Senate , including military veterans Joni Ernst of Iowa and John McCain of Arizona, have objected to Trump's ban.