Monday, November 25, 2024 -US President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to issue an executive order on his 'first day in office' to ban transgender members of the military.
According to The Sunday Times, the controversial order would cause as
many as 15,000 active service members to be 'medically discharged' - deeming
them unfit to serve.
Trump seeks to issue the executive action on January 20, 2025 or Day 1
of his term, the Times said, preventing any transgender people from enlisting
in the military as all branches continue to struggle with recruitment.
The 78-year-old former president has nominated former Fox
News host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense and has pledged
to purge all government agencies of 'woke' policies.
In a podcast interview recently, Hegseth called the inclusion of
transgender people in the service 'pushing boundaries.'
He suggested that you can't integrate trans people in as easily as
people of different races were integrated 'because being transgendered in the
military causes complications and differences.”
Hegseth also said that transgender people were 'not
deployable' because they are 'reliant on chemicals.'
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