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Odoreida

(1,549 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2018, 10:25 PM Mar 2018

Ban on trans service members now official

White House announces ban on most transgender service members
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-announces-ban-on-most-transgender-service-members/

The White House announced Friday that the Trump administration would implement its ban on all transgender service in the military "except under certain limited circumstances." It would also stop all use of Defense Department or Homeland Security resources to fund new sex reassignment surgeries, except to protect the health of individuals who have already begun treatment to reassign his or her sex.

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