The Military Transgender Ban Is Official: Here’s What It Actually Says

As promised, President Trump signed an official ban on transgendered individuals in the military this evening.

Breaking: Trump directs Pentagon to move forward on transgender ban, bans DOD from providing medical treatment to transgender servicemembers

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 25, 2017

According to this:

President Donald Trump on Friday directed the military not to move forward with an Obama-era plan that would have allowed transgender individuals to be recruited into the armed forces, following through on his intentions announced a month earlier to ban transgender people from serving.

 

The presidential memorandum also bans the Department of Defense from using its resources to provide medical treatment regimens for transgender individuals currently serving in the military.

 

Trump also directed the departments of Defense and Homeland Security “to determine how to address transgender individuals currently serving based on military effectiveness and lethality, unitary cohesion, budgetary constraints, applicable law, and all factors that may be relevant,” the White House official said.

 

The White House official who briefed reporters on the memo on Friday evening declined to say whether transgender troops would be allowed to remain in the military under those policy guidelines.

Before anyone tells you what they THINK is says (hint hint, the liberal media) read what it ACTUALLY says:

As you’ll recall, many military members have spoken up in support of this ban, for a number of reasons, one of the MOST important being combat readiness:

I expect there to be A LOT of blowback from this in the next few days. We, of course, will keep you updated.

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