Trump revokes Biden’s order that lifted trans military ban, clearing way for new ban

 

Stop Transgender Military Ban, Washington, DC USA – 29 July 2017
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Donald Trump has cleared the way for a new ban on military service by transgender Americans.

One of the orders he issued Monday, just hours after taking office as president, rescinds President Joe Biden’s order of January 25, 2021, that lifted the ban Trump had put in place in his first term. Trump did not yet issue a new ban, but the revocation of Biden’s order allows him to do so, and it’s widely expected that he will.

“The previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government,” the introduction to Trump’s “Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions” order reads. “The injection of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) into our institutions has corrupted them by replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy.” Trump’s order rescinds nearly 80 of Biden’s executive orders.

However, there is no new ban — yet. Transgender troops can continue to serve openly and proudly, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, senior counsel at Lambda Legal, emphasized in a Zoom press conference held Tuesday with the American Civil Liberties Union. If and when a ban is issued, the groups are ready to take action, he said.

Biden’s 2021 order lifting the trans ban read in part, “It shall…

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