Trump Planning To Remove Transgenders From Military: Report
Washington DC, US: Victory of Donald Trump has added to the growing fears of the LGBTQIA+ community in the US. Reports suggest that the President-elect is planning an executive order to remove transgender members from the US military. They will be medically discharged, means they will be deemed “unfit” to serve, reported The Sunday Times quoting officials.
During his first term as the US President, Trump had imposed a similar order. He had prevented transgenders from joining the armed forces but had allowed those already serving. However, this time, transgenders currently serving will also face expulsion from the military, as per the report. It said that the executive order for the removal of transgenders may come on his first day back as President on January 20.
Reportedly, there are around 15,000 transgenders actively serving in the US military. When President Joe Biden had lifted Trump’s ban on transgenders in the military, around 2,200 service personnel were diagnosed with gender dysphoria, and several other personnel identified as a different gender to what they were born as, said the report.
Trump, has repeatedly dismissed the inclusion of transgenders in the community. He said he has a key vision: To rid America of perceived “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination”.
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He repeatedly said that he would cut money to “any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on children”. He also wants to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ sports and to forbid classroom lessons on gender identity.
The President-elect’s defence pick Pete Hegseth, who will be in charge of the US military, also shares same view as Trump on transgenders. He has forcefully argued that steps to incorporate women and transgender personnel across the military are eroding the US security, said The Washington Post report.
J D Vance, Trump’s Vice President-elect, had triggered a row by making controversial remarks on transgender and nonbinary people earlier this month. He suggested that some white children are incentivised to “become” trans to get college admissions into Ivy Leagues. He made the comment while speaking on a podcast with Joe Rogan.
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“If you are a middle-class or upper-middle-class white parent, and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, obviously that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper-middle class kids…The one way that those people can participate in the DEI (Diversity, equity, and inclusion) bureaucracy in this country is to be trans”, he said.
