On July 26th, 2017, President Trump announced a regressive and frankly hateful roll-back of an Obama administration policy which allowed trans service members to serve openly. The Trump policy announcement went like this:
After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
….Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
….victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
It was a diversionary tactic employed by a president embattled by the Russia Probe, failures on healthcare, and record low approval ratings. It sacrificed an at-risk minority just to serve up a little red meat to his culturally-retro base. We can only imagine in our darkest nightmares the other “brilliant” Trump policy changes to come down the pike as his administration continues to go up in flames…
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