REPORT: Trump Plans To Eject Trans Military Members
The Independent reports:
Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that would remove transgender servicemembers from the military as soon as his first day in office.
The president-elect is reportedly preparing to issue an order following his inauguration on January 20 that would effectively ban trans people serving in the military — and then medically discharge the thousands of currently serving trans service members in the armed forces.
In his first term in office, Trump declared that the US would no longer “accept or allow” trans people in the military, citing “tremendous medical costs and disruption,” he wrote in 2017. The ban took effect in 2019.
Read the full article. Trump’s 2017 ban was announced on Twitter, taking the Pentagon and his own White House staff by surprise.
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