Pentagon, White House discussing transgender ban
By Ellen Mitchell - 07/31/17 02:09 PM EDT
The White House has reached out to the Pentagon to begin drafting official guidance to ban transgender people from serving in the military, a Defense Department spokesman confirmed.
“We have conversations back and forth all the time with the White House in a variety of channels and those conversations are starting to happen on the issue,” Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters at the Pentagon.
President Trump last week declared on Twitter that the military would have a new policy forbidding transgender people from serving in the military.
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