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The 'Stop Transgender Military Ban' rally outside the White House was held July 29, 2017. The announced reinstatement of the ban was followed by protests in New York City, Washington DC, and San Francisco on July 26, 2017, [85] and a rally was held in front of the White House on July 29.
Another concern is the cost to treat transgender members in the military. A small portion of transgender soldiers seek medical intervention, yearly 30 to 140 pursue hormone treatment and 25 to 100 have surgical reassignment surgery.
Directive-type Memorandum-19-004, "Military Service by Transgender Persons and Persons with Gender Dysphoria", was a memorandum issued by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) prohibiting most transgender individuals from serving or enlisting in the United States Armed Forces and the DoD.
The Department of Defense is assessing its ability to recruit transgender people as soon as July 1, according to a memo signed by a top Pentagon official.
The defense bill passed the House along party lines: 281 to 140. Two hundred Republicans and 81 Democrats voted yes on the bill, while 124 Democrats and 16 Republicans opposed it.
The transgender military ban in the United States under President Donald Trump took several forms. This is a list of articles covering the subject. Directive-type Memorandum-19-004 (March 2019), the U.S. Department of Defense memorandum effectively restricting most transgender applicants from April 2019 to March 2020
A majority of Americans believe that transgender individuals should be allowed to serve in the military, according to an exclusive Reuters/Ipsos poll. Majority of Americans support transgender ...
On April 13, 2018, the policy was stayed in Karnoski vs. Trump (Western District of Washington), when the court ruled that the 2018 memorandum essentially repeated the same issues as its predecessor order from 2017, that transgender service members (and transgender individuals as a class) were a protected class entitled to strict scrutiny of ...