Reversing Trump, Pentagon to Release New Transgender Policy

[demmiblue]

Source: Bloomberg/AP

Washington (AP) -- The Pentagon on Wednesday will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that offer them wider access to medical care and assistance with gender transition, defense officials told The Associated Press.

The new department regulations allow transgender people who meet military standards to enlist and serve openly in their self-identified gender, and they will be able to get medically necessary transition-related care authorized by law, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal decisions not yet made public.

The changes come after a two-month Pentagon review aimed at developing guidelines for the new policy, which was announced by President Joe Biden just days after he took office in January.

Biden's executive order overturned the Trump policy and immediately prohibited any service member from being forced out of the military on the basis of gender identity. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin then gave the Pentagon two months to finalize the more detailed regulations that the military services will follow.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-31/reversing-trump-pentagon-to-release-new-transgender-policy

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P.S., it is Trans Day of Visibility... shout out to our trans DUer friends!

[Budi]

1. K & R

A BFD 💙

[mezame]

2. How 'bout that!

Yay, they'll let us serve and kill to preserve America's freedumbs, but gee they won't let us play sports. At least trans service members will get gender-affirming healthcare.

I look forward to the day when TDoV is just another manufactured national holiday - like 2/14 or 10/31.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Pentagon to release new transgender rules, reversing Trump-era policies

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[riversedge]

4. Now for schools--athletic Depts to catch up.

[mezame]

5. NCAA Anyone?

Major schools all across the country follow NCAA protocol around diversity, like for years - and still the inequity exists (see Megan Rapinoe's recent comments). They've already 'caught up' (the pro's not so much), and that's what makes the ReThugs' hives break out. Shiny new thing, same old slavering and frothing.

Once (filibuster better fuckin' get out of the way) the Equality Act is Law of the Land, then a lot of this misogynistic bullshit will stop being their new meme, and we can all get back to watching athletes strive to be their best, regardless of their [insert fav affinity here].

[Karadeniz]

6. Slowly but surely, we undo Trump...