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

By Diana Stancy Correll

Published March 24, 2018 3:20am ET

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Nancy Pelosi rips Trump’s ‘hateful’ transgender troop ban — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a town hall-style meeting, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, at the Cambridge Public Library, in Cambridge, Mass. On the heels of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, Pelosi spoke about the recently approved federal tax overhaul. Her appearance at the event is part of what organizers say is a nationwide tour featuring members of Congress and others to call attention to the Republican tax plan. | (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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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