Trumps Trans Military Ban Now Policy-Trump is actually going ahead with discrimination!!

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August 4, 2017 at 6:37 pm PDT | by Karen Ocamb


Trump’s Trans Military Ban Now Policy

http://www.losangelesblade.com/2017/08/04/trumps-trans-military-ban-now-policy/




Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Laura Perry, 45th Medical Operations Squadron master social worker, talks with an attendee after a spReaking engagement, Dec. 2, 2016, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. Perry was instrumental in the fight for transgender military members to openly serve and travels the country sharing her story. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Janiqua P. Robinson)

President Donald Trump may be on a 17- day vacation but his White House has been scrambling to hand him a “win” by the time he returns. Trump’s tweets last week announcing a ban on transgender individuals serving openly in the U.S. military was turned into a “guidance” policy for implementation that passed muster with the White House Counsel’s office Friday night. Approved by Trump, the new policy is expected to be now delivered into the hands of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who has been quiet on the issue with approximately 15,000 trans servicemembers under his command.

After his review, Mattis is expected to order a deliberate implementation by the Pentagon, which could take a period of time.

Though the policy—called “A Guidance Policy for Open Transgender Service Phase Out”—has not yet been made public, sources familiar with the planning said it would encourage early retirement, usher out any enlisted personnel after their contract is up, and would fire trans officers up for promotion. Basically, said a source, “the administration want to get rid of transgender servicemembers as fast as they can.”

No one yet knows what will happen to the servicemembers currently fighting in combat. The new policy does allow trans servicemembers to continue serving but apparently does not offer any protection from harassment or other efforts to get them to quit.

Link to tweet

https://www.lambdalegal.org/blog/20170805_lambda-legal-will-sue-trump-over-trans-ban

Lambda Legal: See you in court, President Trump.


Sasha Buchert, Staff Attorney
August 5, 2017
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VIDEO: Lambda Legal will fight for trans service members.

The Trump administration reportedly has finalized its transgender military ban policy.

According to the Los Angeles Blade, the policy, called, “A Guidance Policy for Open Transgender Service Phase Out,” would remove openly transgender enlisted personnel from the military by not allowing them to reenlist and would terminate transgender officers who are up for promotion.

I am a transgender military veteran. The move to purge transgender military personnel is dishonorable to the thousands of transgender men and women who are serving our country with courage and who are integral parts of our armed services.

The safety of all service members - transgender or not - is undermined by a policy like this that distracts from the important missions they have for no valid reason. It is also a slap in the face of the leadership who have worked diligently to develop and implement the current policy which has been in place for more than a year without incident.

The tweeted military trans ban has already been condemned by more than 56 retired generals and admirals and a large percentage of Republican and Democratic senators and representatives. A majority of Americans support allowing transgender troops to serve openly.

This mean-spirited and discriminatory attack on our community is capricious, irrational and clearly driven by anti-LGBT forces in the administration who care more about harming transgender people than keeping our nation safe. It is clearly unconstitutional..................................

[drray23]

1. its going to end up tied in courts and he will lose.

on top of that, some members of congress already indicated they would legislate to stop it.