'The House will continue to fight this discriminatory action, which has no place in our country,' said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 'We will never allow hate and prejudice to dictate our national security.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed President Donald Trump over a Pentagon policy change that would bar transgender troops and military recruits from transitioning to another sex and require most service members to serve in their birth gender.
A memo obtained by The Associated Press outlining the Pentagon's new policy asserted that military services would be required to implement the policy in 30 days, allowing anyone who signed an enlistment contract by April 12 to continue with any plans for hormone treatments and gender transition if they had received a diagnosis of "gender dysphoria."
Vowing to fight the new policy, Pelosi said: “No one with the strength and bravery to serve in the U.S. military should be turned away because of who they are. "Even leaders who supported ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ at the time later came to believe that it had failed, harming readiness rather than improving it," Belkin said."That will be the fate of this bigoted policy on transgender service as well.”
In 2016, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that transgender people could serve openly, with the military asserting that by July 1, 2017, transgender applicants would be allowed to enlist.
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