President Donald Trump has officially signed a memorandum that bans transgender individuals from serving in the military.
In the memo sent to the Secretaries of the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, Trump directed the military to “return to the longstanding policy” of barring transgender individuals from entering the service.
The directive also instructs the departments to “halt all use” of government funds for gender-reassignment surgeries unless “necessary to protect the health of an individual who has already begun a course of treatment to reassign his or her sex.”
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