Intelligence officer with 20 years service speaks out about Trump’s ‘hurtful’ trans military ban

A transgender intelligence officer who has served the US military for 20 years in a vital and deeply-specialised role has described the “hurtful” impact of Trump’s trans military ban.

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, the Trump administration has made quick work of fulfilling the Republican president’s campaign promise to restore his previous trans military ban which took effect during his first term in office but was subsequently overturned by Joe Biden.

At the end of January Trump signed an executive order which declared the armed forces have been “afflicted with radical gender ideology” and stated “expressing a false “gender identity” divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service” – language which echoed the recently implemented government policy signed-in on

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