Trump To Sign Order Barring Transgender Troops From US Military Service?

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US President-elect Donald Trump is planning to ban all transgenders from serving in the military and is expected to launch on his first day back in the White House

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This order would force around 15,000 people, believed to be transgenders, out of their posts in the army

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According to sources, these personnel would receive special medical discharges, deeming them unfit for military service

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Additionally, Trump is expected to implement a complete prohibition on transgender individuals joining the military, despite various service branches currently facing recruitment challenges

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Trump has criticized what he terms as 'woke' military practices, suggesting military leadership prioritizes diversity, equality and inclusion over combat readiness

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Trump's latest pick for secretary of defense, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, has already stirred widespread concern over his inflammatory views on women, transgender people, and diversity initiatives within the military

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During a recent interview with former Navy SEAL and conservative podcast host Shawn Ryan, Hegseth spoke out against wokeism in the military, blaming it for the recruitment drop off

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"Being transgendered in the military causes complications and differences. And the book kind of lays out the common arguments that those on the left or others make which are baked in social justice

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So it started, you know, we saw it under Clinton with the tinkering of don't ask, don't tell and the reasons for those changes. And I talked to some of the people involved in when that was changed

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But it really happened, started to accelerate under Obama. And you saw it with, you saw the trans stuff come at the end of the Obama administration," Hegseth said.

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"You saw the women in combat come at the end of the Obama administration. It's because they looked around at the bureaucracies that they controlled in Washington and the one that was that they didn't control

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