PNN – Transgender service members will be kicked out of the U.S. military unless they receive a waiver, according to a Pentagon memo filed in court Wednesday.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from Reuters news agency, this action effectively prohibits transgender people from joining or serving in the US military.
Also, this action, which goes beyond the restrictions that Donald Trump imposed on transgender military personnel during his administration, has been described as “unprecedented” by the rights supporters of these people.
Last month, the US president signed an executive order targeting transgender military personnel. In a part of this decree, it is stated that a man who introduces himself as a woman is not compatible with “the humility and selflessness required for a military force”.
The US Department of Defense (Pentagon) announced this month that the US military will no longer allow transgender people to join and will stop conducting or facilitating gender reassignment procedures for the military.
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Wednesday’s Pentagon memo extends the ban to active-duty members of the U.S. military.
The memo states that the Pentagon must establish a process to identify transgender military personnel within 30 days and then begin the process of expelling them from the military within 30 days.
The Pentagon stated that waivers would be granted only if “there is a compelling government interest in maintaining a military force that directly supports warfighting capabilities.”
According to this report, during his first term as president, Donald Trump announced that he intends to ban transgender people from serving in the military. He did not fully implement this decision and only stopped recruiting new troops, while allowing serving troops to remain in the army.
In his second term, Donald Trump is moving at a dizzying and reckless pace to change American social and political norms and the economy, while redefining America’s role in the world.
Trump has empowered Elon Musk, an unelected South African-born billionaire, to help engineer the layoffs of thousands of government employees and possibly shut down entire agencies created by Congress. These efforts have largely overshadowed Trump’s crackdown on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, and his efforts to reshape social policy by halting the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion program and rolling back transgender rights.