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The militaries of the world have a variety of responses to homosexual and bisexual orientations. Some Western military forces have now removed policies excluding individuals of other sexual orientations; of the 25 countries that participate militarily in NATO, more than 20 permit open-homosexuals to serve; of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, two (United Kingdom and France) permit homosexuals to serve openly, and one, China, doesn't while the remaining two, the United States and Russia, have semi-ambiguous policies the former allowing gay people to serve but in secrecy and celibacy and the latter allowing only "well-adjusted" (masculine) gays, and no one with "sexual identity problems".