transgender military ban
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Report by Former Military Physicians Says Trump’s Transgender Ban Hurt the Military. Who Would’ve Guessed?
Man, who would’ve thought barring an entire group of people from joining the U.S. military would have lasting, negative effects on the organization? According to a group of former military physicians, that’s exactly what happened as a result of the Trump administration banning transgender people from enlisting. I promise I’m just as not-surprised as you…
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Transgender Patients Could be Stripped of Healthcare Protections by the Trump Administration
Over the course of his two-and-half-year tenure, our alleged President Donald Trump has either enacted or enforced policies that make no secret as to where he stands on transgender and LGBTQ issues. Barely a month after taking office, his administration rescinded guidelines that protected transgender students under federal Title IX law. In 2017, the Department…
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Supreme Court Allows Trump's Transgender Military Ban to Go Into Effect
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to enforce President Trump’s policy on barring certain transgender people from joining or staying in the military as justices put lower court rulings, which blocked the plan, on hold. Thanks to the conservative-leaning majority (looking at you, Brett “I like beer. I still like beer” Kavanuagh) what started…
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Trans Activist Who Called Caitlyn Jenner a ‘Fraud’ Is Running for Seat in California’s State Assembly
A transgender activist who drew national attention last year after confronting Caitlyn Jenner at an event and calling her a “fucking fraud” is now vying for a seat in California’s state Assembly. According to HuffPost, Ashlee Marie Preston on Saturday announced her plans to run for the District 54 seat, following the resignation of California…
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Court Blocks Trump’s Transgender Military Ban, Cites His Announcement via Twitter
The courts have once more come through for decency by partially blocking President Donald Trump’s ban of transgender members from serving in the U.S. military. On Monday the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Trump’s directive banning new transgender recruits from enlisting cannot be enforced while the case is being reviewed…
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White House Outlines Transgender Military Ban and It’s Pretty Horrible: Report
When President Donald J.Trump initially tweeted out July 26 that he was issuing a ban against all transgender people serving in the armed forces, I assumed that as with most of Trump’s tweets, he’d stolen his phone out of Steve “Papa” Bannon’s top drawer (where it had been placed because Trump was on punishment) and…
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Laverne Cox Responds to Trump’s Transgender Military Ban
Celebrities and trans-rights activists are not having it since y’all’s president declared that the U.S. military will not allow transgender people to serve in “any capacity”: Donald Trump’s announcement via Twitter sparked outrage, as well as a slew of responses from celebrities who sought to defend those transgender people who are already serving in the…