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Military leaders' concerns over how the Obama administration's transgender policy would affect military readiness prompted the new policy.
The Justice Department announced Friday night that it will not be asking the Supreme Court to stop the Jan. 1 deadline for allowing transgender military recruits.
Openly transgender people will be allowed to sign up to join the US military come Jan. 1.
The Trump administration had been fighting — unsuccessfully — to allow for the indefinite delay of that date, as sought by President Trump, or at least for Defense Secretary James Mattis, to be able to delay the date if he wished to do so on his own authority.
Over the past week, however, it appeared the Trump administration had given up the fight to stop the Jan. 1 deadline from going into effect — and the relevant administration officials had gone quiet on the matter.
Those who had challenged the Trump administration effort to halt transgender military service celebrated the news as "a major victory" in the ongoing lawsuits.
"There was never any legitimate reason for President Trump to upset the military’s existing policy on transgender troops," Shannon Minter, an attorney with the National Center for Lesbian Rights who is representing the plaintiffs in the case out of DC, told BuzzFeed News on Friday night. "We are hopeful the Department of Defense will once again confirm that excluding transgender people from military service would serve only to deprive the Armed Forces of dedicated service members and undermine our national security."
Just days after President Trump signed a directive reinstating a ban on transgender people in the military.
MTV Invited Six Transgender Troops to the Video Music Awards
Just days after Donald Trump signed a directive reinstating a ban on transgender people in the military on Friday MTV invited six transgender military members to the Video Music Awards:
Sterling James Crutcher, Air Force Airman First Class; Logan B. Ireland, Air Force Staff Sergeant; Akira Wyatt, Navy Corpsman Petty Officer 3rd Class; Brynn Tannehill, Former Navy Lt. Commander; Laila Ireland, Retired Army veteran; and Jennifer Peace, U.S. Army Captain.
Vanity Fair writes:
“Historically, the V.M.A.s have been a huge platform for social issues that are currently happening, so being able to have that platform and share our stories is important to us,” Laila Ireland told Billboard about walking the V.M.A.s red carpet.
“We don’t just represent our own stories, we represent all the stories that can’t be told, voices that can't be heard, and I think it’s very important to share that.”
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TAKE THAT Trump!
Taylor Miller is openly transitioning to female while serving as a Coast Guard officer. A year of photographs follow her transgender transformation.
Trump's tweets announcing the policy point to discriminatory intent, not a real justification.
You know what affects military readiness and morale? When you start to take away our rights. When thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines are no longer sure if they have job security. When your Commander-in-Chief disrespects you and calls you a burden. When evidence showing that treating you as a person with needs is the responsible thing to do is cast aside. When leadership gets bogged down with emergency conference calls because of a tweet threatening our troops. When we have to start worrying about protecting our troop’s basic human rights. Military readiness and morale decreased today because thousands of military members are uncertain about the future of their jobs and their safety. Simply because they are transgender.