Posted on 08/25/2017 3:55:10 PM PDT by mandaladon
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday officially stopped funding for sex-reassignment treatment for transgender people currently in the military and barred the Pentagon from accepting any more transgender people into the services.
The president signed a memo giving new guidance to his previously-tweeted ban on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military, according to a senior White House official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.
Trump signed the memo, the details of which were first reported by The Wall Street Journal, on Friday and directed the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to stop funding of sex-reassignment procedures and deny entry of transgender individuals into the military.
But the Trump administration official was unable to answer questions about whether the estimated thousands of transgender service members currently serving would be allowed to remain in the military.
The administration's guidance gives Defense Secretary James Mattis some leeway when considering whether individual transgender service members would be allowed to continue to serve. The defense secretary would be able to military effectiveness, unit cohesion, budget restraints and other factors, the administration official said.
The Pentagon and Department of Defense have six months to develop an implementation plan.
Asked if at the end of the six month implementation period it was possible that transgender people already serving will continue, the official said the administration didn't have "anything to say beyond the policy enunciated in the memo."
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I would not kick out any of the transgender people in the military but I would require they be honorably discharged upon finishing their tours and not be allowed to re-up. Muster them all out when their tours are done.
I am not surprised thousands are in the military. It was a route to free surgery. That is quite a magnet.
GOOD!
That’s a whole lot of REMFs trying to get into a lower PT score bracket...
Can I get a big “AMEN!”?
AMEN.
I wonder how the commandant of the Coast Guard is taking that??
That is an excellent suggestion. Great approach. But it will never happen...the uproar would be huge. “I’ve served honorably. Why can’t I re-up?”
So transgenders enlisted in the military for free gender “reassignment” and now they don’t get the medical benefit? LOL.
Thank goodness for this. this is THE LAST thing I want my tax dollars being spent on.
Where did anyone ever get the idea that the armed forces are a social welfare program?
Well, he can either take it as any other order or resign.
More winning with President Trump.
Watch the lawsuit start flying just like when people who enlisted in the military had to go to war because they just enlisted for the educational benefits.
MAGA!!!!
May the covfefe be with us!
Trump’s tweet said “transgenders” couldn’t serve “in any capacity.” Mattis should tell them they have 72 hours to get their affairs in order because they’re being separated. Letting them hang around till their enlistment is up is not what the president directed and Mattis knows this. Back in the early 70s if somebody tested positive on a piss test for drugs, he was gone by Monday morning.
Exactly.
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