Nancy Pelosi rips Trump’s ‘hateful’ transgender troop ban

Published March 24, 2018 3:20am ET



House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., condemned President Trump’s “hateful ban” after the administration unveiled a new policy that will bar most transgender troops from serving in the U.S. military.

“This latest memorandum is the same cowardly, disgusting ban the President announced last summer. No one with the strength and bravery to serve in the U.S. military should be turned away because of who they are,” Pelosi wrote in a statement Friday.

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