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Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military

posted by mrpg on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the battle-in-the-courts dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

Transgender recruits will be allowed to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, the Pentagon said Monday, as President Donald Trump's ordered ban suffered more legal setbacks.

The new policy reflects the difficult hurdles the federal government would have to cross to enforce Trump's demand earlier this year to bar transgender individuals from the military.

[...] Potential transgender recruits will have to overcome a lengthy and strict set of physical, medical and mental conditions that make it possible, though difficult, for them to join the armed services.

Maj. David Eastburn, a Pentagon spokesman, says the enlistment of transgender recruits will start Jan. 1 and go on amid the legal battles.

Pentagon to allow transgender people to enlist in military

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  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Friday December 15 2017, @03:01PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Friday December 15 2017, @03:01PM (#610303)

    Option A is genocide and is now considered a war crime.

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