An Amendment Could Stop Trump’s Transgender Military Ban

By TMPlanet New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, introduced a bipartisan amendment to protect transgender service members from President Trump’s plan to ban from the military. The amendment introduced Monday would prohibit the Department of Defense from dismissing current transgender service members “solely on the basis of […]

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Presidential Order by a Tweet will ban Transgender Service in Six Months

A White House memo that is expected to be sent to the Pentagon in coming days gives Jim Mattis, the secretary of defense, six months to enforce the transgender ban that Mr. Trump announced abruptly last month in a series of tweets. The directive was confirmed Wednesday by a person familiar with its contents but who was not authorized to discuss its details and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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