Many Dismissed Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Tweets. Big Mistake.

President Donald Trump tweeted on July 26 that transgender individuals would not be allowed to serve in the United States military. Tweets alone don’t change policy, so some in the media assumed the president was just blowing smoke.

Today, it’s clear that Trump meant what he said and intends to carry it out. A White House memo was sent to the Pentagon on Wednesday directing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to deny admittance to transgender individuals, and to stop paying for medical treatment regimens for currently enlisted transgender people.

The White House is expected to send additional guidance to the Pentagon in coming days to detail how to implement the ban. Mattis will have six months to get all of this done . . .

The White House memo gives Mattis and the Pentagon the discretion to consider an individual’s deployability when deciding whether or not to separate them from service.

Deployability is defined as the ability to serve in a war zone, participate in exercises or live on a ship for months at a time, and will be the legal basis used to make determinations on transgender individual’s fitness for military service. (Read more from “Many Dismissed Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Tweets. Big Mistake.” HERE)

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