Trump Order Would Ban Most Transgender Troops From Serving

Trump : banned most transgenders troops from serving in the military except : « under circumstances »

—> following up on his calls (last year) to ban transgender individuals from serving

Withe House : troops with history or diagnosis of « gender dysphoria »

require medical treatment

« considerable risk to military EFFECTIVENESS and LETHALITY »

2017

Trump tweet : allow transgender to serve openly => so push for the ban = blocked

SO : Pentagon responded : by allowing those serving to stay in the military + allowing transgender individuals to enlist => begin Jan. 1.

New policy : everybody allowed

Democrats + civil rights groups responded

“No one with the strength & bravery to serve in the U.S. military should be turned away because of who they are.”

Human Rights Campaign + largest LGBT civil right organization

—> accused Trump’s administration

“anti-transgender prejudices onto the military »

=> discriminatory, unconstitutional, despicable ban

Joshua Block (senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union LGBT & HIV Project)

no choice between humanity and country

Defense Secretary (J. Mattis)

Pentagon spokesman

new policy = no immediate effect on the military => obliged by the current law

agree with Trump

Guidelines : Pentagon

disqualify potential recruits —> conditions