Trans US troops will be separated from their fellow cisgender service members unless they receive an exception, a new memo has revealed.
The Pentagon memo was filed as an exhibit by the DoD in Talbott v. Trump, a federal lawsuit challenging Trump’s executive order banning trans troops.
The memo, revealed in court documents filed yesterday, is almost word-for-word the same as a January executive order issued by Donald Trump restricting trans military personnel.
‘It is the policy of the United States Government to establish high standards for service member readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity,’ the memo dated February 26 said.
Trump’s directive, ‘Prioritising military excellence and readiness’, does not use the word ‘transgender’ but says the military has been ‘afflicted with radical gender ideology’.
