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Donald Trump's Department of Justice has had a difficult few days in court as the administration continues to try to ban transgender people from military service.
Starting today, transgender members of the U.S. military can serve openly.
"We are going to continue to show up every single day, put on our uniforms, and do the absolute best that we can to lead troops, our country, and do our jobs,” Second Lt. Nicolas Talbott said.
The legislation would circumvent Trump's ban on transgender service members, which SCOTUS allowed to go into effect.
The Republican senator sticks his neck out for transgender service members, but it may not be enough to stopTrump's cruel order.
The policy explicitly bans transgender service members from receiving gender-affirming medical care, including hormone therapy and gender-confirmation surgeries.
New enlistments for transgender people are stopped, care for existing service members paused and promotions held up, according to the defense secretary’s latest memo.
As transgender service members face unprecedented pressures to relinquish their identities, a resolute spirit mirrors that of defenders during World War II.
“All servicemembers will be treated with dignity and respect at all times,” the memo denying transgender soldiers of their existence states.
Enlistment is happening, but Trump is not giving up his fight against transgender service members.
This week in the Resistance, Nintendo fosters LGBT pride and MTV supports transgender military service members.
The Army “will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating procedures associated with gender transition for service members,” the post states.
The Hartzler amendment "would have ripped away medically necessary health care for transgender service members and military dependents," according to OutServe-SLDN.
Members of two leading legal organizations fought against the transgender military ban before and plan on doing it again.
Unlike his previous ban that prohibited new members from signing up if they were transgender, Trump's proposed ban reportedly would medically discharge all current trans service members.
U.S. Army Capt. Jennifer Sims has a message for Trump.
He led the Department of Defense's effort to include transgender service members in the ranks of the U.S. military.
Transgender leaders minced no words about the president's announcement of a new ban on trans service members.
The Air Force says transgender service members have to leave before the end of March or face an uncertain future.
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Steven Giordano expressed his support for transgender service members.
