LGBTQ Advocates Salute Biden’s Repeal Of Trump-Era Transgender Military Ban – By Curtis M. Wong (HuffPost) / January 25 2021
The Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD and even Cher praised the president for ending “a shameful chapter in our nation’s history.”
President Joe Biden made good on one of his campaign pledges this week by repealing the Trump administration’s 2019 guidance that banned transgender people from enlisting and serving in the military.
Monday’s executive order “immediately prohibits involuntary separations, discharges, and denials of reenlistment or continuation of service on the basis of gender identity or under circumstances relating to gender identity,” a White House statement sent to HuffPost and other media outlets read.
Today, I repealed the discriminatory ban on transgender people serving in the military. It’s simple: America is safer when everyone qualified to serve can do so openly and with pride.
— President Biden (@POTUS) January 25, 2021
The long-anticipated move reinstates a 2016 Obama administration policy that allowed transgender individuals to openly serve in the military. It was announced by the White House at Monday’s ceremonial swearing in of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who has said he supports the decision.
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