Trump executive order bans transgender service members from military
Trump executive order bans transgender service members from military
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Trump also signed orders eliminating diversity programs in military and reinstating service members who didn’t comply with vaccine mandates. Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military. “Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life,” his order reads.
LGBT+ advocacy groups Lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign said in a statement toThe Independent they plan to sue over the order. “We have been here before and seven years ago were able to successfully block the earlier administration’s effort to prevent patriotic, talented Americans from serving their country,” Lambda Legal Counsel Sasha Buchert said. “Not only is such a move cruel, it compromises the safety and security of our country and is particularly dangerous and wrong. As we promised then, so do we now: we will sue.”.
