Nancy Pelosi in Trump Cabinet members actions and issues

On Homeland Security: Ban on transgender troops enlisting in military is cowardly

The Defense Department has approved a new policy that will largely bar transgender troops and military recruits from transitioning to another sex, and require most individuals to serve in their birth gender. The memo comes after a lengthy & complicated legal battle. It falls short of the all-out transgender ban that was initially ordered by President Donald Trump. But it will likely force the military to eventually discharge transgender individuals who need hormone treatments or surgery and can't or won't serve in their birth gender.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the ban "cowardly." "The President's revival of his bigoted, disgusting ban on transgender servicemembers is a stunning attack on the patriots who keep us safe and on the most fundamental ideals of our nation," the California Democrat said. "The President's years-long insistence on his cowardly ban makes clear that prejudice, not patriotism, guides his decisions."

Source: NBC News on Trump Cabinet, "Transgender Rule" Mar 13, 2019

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