Well he said he was gonna do it, and he did it.
Breaking: Trump directs Pentagon to move forward on transgender ban, bans DOD from providing medical treatment to transgender servicemembers
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 25, 2017
President Donald Trump on Friday directed the military not to move forward with an Obama-era plan that would have allowed transgender individuals to be recruited into the armed forces, following through on his intentions announced a month earlier to ban transgender people from serving.
The presidential memorandum also bans the Department of Defense from using its resources to provide medical treatment regimens for transgender individuals currently serving in the military.
Trump also directed the departments of Defense and Homeland Security “to determine how to address transgender individuals currently serving based on military effectiveness and lethality, unitary cohesion, budgetary constraints, applicable law, and all factors that may be relevant,” the White House official said.
The White House official who briefed reporters on the memo on Friday evening declined to say whether transgender troops would be allowed to remain in the military under those policy guidelines.
BOOM!!!
#BREAKING Trump signs memo barring transgender personnel from US military
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) August 25, 2017
JUST IN: The Dept. of Defense says it has received formal guidance on President Trump's new policy for transgender personnel in the military
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 25, 2017
You can bet there will be protests this weekend. Very poorly wardrobed protests.
I’ll post the text of the memo here very soon…
UPDATE – here it is:
