President Biden has now officially revoked former President Trump’s ban on government funded sex change operations for military personnel as well as a ban on transgendered soldiers from serving in the U.S. military.
Biden made the shocking change via executive order on Monday morning, signaling that the US military will be home to openly transgender soldiers under his watch.
As The Daily Wire reports:
“Allowing all qualified Americans to serve their country in uniform is better for the military and better for the country because an inclusive force is a more effective force,” the White House said in a statement, according to Axios. “Simply put, it’s the right thing to do and is in our national interest.”
The new executive order comes after the Senate confirmed Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, last week in a 93-2 vote. Austin was sworn into office on Friday, making him the first black man to hold the position of Secretary of Defense. During his confirmation hearing, Austin voiced support for rescinding the Trump administration ban on transgender people serving in the military.
“If you’re fit and you’re qualified to serve and you can maintain the standards, you should be allowed to serve and you can expect that I will support that throughout,” Austin said…
The Trump policy, after it was reworked by the Defense Department and approved by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis, mandated that service members identify by their biological gender while in the military with few exceptions. The policy also blocked military funding from paying for sex reassignment surgeries for service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria, unless to “protect the health” of a service member who was already transitioning when the policy was rolled out.
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