Tag: LGBT Issues

Last month, President Trump tweeted that he did not think transgenders should be allowed in the military. A month later, he formalized that idea and in response, the ACLU has sued Trump on behalf of several transgender military people, saying his ban violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the Constitution. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Legally, the ACLU might be right about Trump’s transgender ban — practically, they’re still wrong

Nicole Russell · August 29, 2017 7:14 pm

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a bill that prohibits the Defense Department and Coast Guard from ruling out service based on gender identity. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

143 House lawmakers urge Trump to back off military transgender ban

Travis J. Tritten · August 29, 2017 5:50 pm

A Wisconsin school district is asking the Supreme Court to review an appeals court's decision allowing a transgender teenager to use the boys' bathroom while the student's lawsuit proceeds through the courts. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Transgender bathroom battle could be headed back to Supreme Court

Ryan Lovelace · August 28, 2017 3:32 pm

The groups represent two transgender people who want to enlist in the military and an enlisted service member who wants to become a warrant officer.

National Security

ACLU, two advocacy groups file two new lawsuits against Trump’s transgender military ban

Travis J. Tritten · August 28, 2017 2:15 pm

The following is the full text of a memo from President Trump for the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security regarding transgender troops. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

National Security

Trump’s memo on transgender troops: FULL TEXT

Washington Examiner Staff · August 25, 2017 10:46 pm

This week the Pentagon's new Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Robert Wilkie unveiled a new "deploy or depart" policy that could give the boot to some 286,000 troops who have not been, or will not be, deployable for a period of a full year. (AP Photo/Mario Tama, Pool)

National Security

Trump signs order for Pentagon to curb transgender military service

Travis J. Tritten · August 25, 2017 10:12 pm

A conversation with President Hoover’s great-granddaughter

A conversation with President Hoover’s great-granddaughter

Washington Examiner Staff · August 25, 2017 1:49 pm

At the Phoenix rally Tuesday, the president pulled out a copy and read from his original statement in response to the violence at a rally in support of a Confederate monument in central Virginia. (AP Photo)

MTV invites transgender troops to Video Music Awards show Sunday

Anna Giaritelli · August 25, 2017 1:49 am

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., slammed the Trump administration Thursday for moving forward with its transgender military ban, saying she didn't care about the sexual orientation of her colleagues who came to her rescue when she "was bleeding to death" while serving in the Iraq War. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

National Security

Tammy Duckworth slams transgender ban: I didn’t care if soldiers were transgender when I was ‘bleeding to death’

Naomi Lim · August 24, 2017 9:24 pm

The White House draft guidance was expected to be finalized soon and sent to the Pentagon. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Kirsten Gillibrand working on bill to fight Trump’s transgender ban

Travis J. Tritten · August 24, 2017 9:12 pm

In effect, this guidance means that the vast majority of transgender personnel will be able to remain in active service. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Why I’m glad Jim Mattis is in charge of transgender service decisions

Tom Rogan · August 24, 2017 7:15 pm

A lawyer for five transgender troops suing President Trump and Mattis said the reported guidance would essentially impose the president's July 26 Twitter announcement of a service ban. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

National Security

Transgender advocates: White House guidance for the military is a ‘purge’

Travis J. Tritten · August 24, 2017 4:20 pm