US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would sign an executive order redested from the US Army as “transgender ideology” in a possible major shock for LGBTQ rights.
Trump told a Republican Congress retreat in Miami, “To ensure that we have the most deadly battle force in the world, we will exclude transgender ideology from our army.” Sign related to armed forces.
Transgender Americans have faced a roller coaster of changing policies on military service in recent years, in which the Democratic administration has tried to openly serve them, while Trump repeatedly kept them out of ranks Has demanded
The US Army lifted the ban on transgender troops serving in the armed forces in 2016 during the second term of Democrat Barack Obama as President.
Under that policy, already serving trans soldiers were allowed to openly perform openly, and the transgender recruitments were determined to be accepted by 1 July 2017.
But the first Trump administration postponed the date by 2018, which promotes criticism from rights groups, before deciding to completely reversed the policy.
Trump claimed that the members of the transgender service were disintegrating, expensive and weak military readiness and comrades among the soldiers.
Trump’s Democratic Successor who went to reversed the restrictions a few days after taking over in Biden 2021, saying that all Americans qualified to serve should be able to do so.
Biden’s executive order restored the policy set by Obama, but Trump swore after his election for a second term last year that he would drop the transgender out of the military, “for trans rights between the other rollbacks.
While the number of transgender troops in the US Army is quite small – some of the more than two million uniformed service members with estimates of 15,000 – their dismissal will reduce American forces when the country already face difficulties in recruitment of new personnel doing .
Biden’s outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin criticized Trump’s plans during a farewell address earlier this month, saying, “Any army that removes qualified patriots, who is eager to serve, is just himself Making small and weak. “
Transgender issues have extended American politics in recent years, as states controlled by Democrats and Republican have shifted from medical treatment to opposite directions on policies, which are allowed in public or school libraries on what books on the subject.
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