Many are now worried that the broad advances they achieved over the last decade will be reversed under President-elect Donald Trump.
Bree Fram is one of thousands of transgender people working openly in government positions. An estimated 15,000 transgender people work in the military alone. WASHINGTON — The Air Force lieutenant colonel left the Pentagon one day and returned the next — with a new name and a new gender identity.
“We have seen the campaign promises, the rhetoric being used about transgender people and what’s occurring on Capitol Hill as well,” she said. “So while none of us know exactly what will come to pass, there is still certainly that concern that it’s not going to be good for transgender people serving in the military.”
No one knows exactly how far the Trump administration will go, and its efforts will again undoubtedly meet legal challenges and other resistance. When he first enacted the military ban, Trump said having transgender people in the armed forces was expensive. A 2016 study by Rand concluded that transgender healthcare added less than 0.1% to the health budget.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt desegregated the Army after World War II. Later, women were given broader roles, including, now, in combat. “It is our collective responsibility to ensure transgender persons can live full lives, without fear of harm,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said just last month. “The United States is committed to fighting for a world that accepts and respects transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming persons.”
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