Yahoo News meets with a range of transgender Americans in the military — those serving openly, those in the closet and those that hope to enlist — to learn more about how President Trump’s transgender troop ban is affecting their jobs and lives.
The Trump administration’s controversial policy banning open transgender military service has been repeatedly exposed for its discriminatory and baseless premise. Yet, it still stands. In light of further misinformation spread by President Trump, efforts endure to repeal the policy considered unconstitutional by many medical professionals and LGBTQ+ organizations.
The Obama administration used this insight from the Rand study to inform its decision to lift the ban on open service for transgender men and women on June 30, 2016. Says Fram: “We'd had the four service chiefs talk about the fact that there were no problems with people being trans in the services and the president had said during the campaign that he was going to be a great friend to the LGBT community. So, it truly was just a shocking moment of what does this mean?”
On Jan. 22, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a lower court’s injunction that had stopped the ban from going into effect. The court also agreed to hear arguments on transgender service in the military, although such action would occur while the ban was in effect. By March 12, the Defense Department released a memorandum outlining the policy that the military was ordered to adopt and that was scheduled to be enacted 30 days later.
Fram says: “There are a lot of people in the service that either the diagnosis, or the treatment, affects in one way or another. The biggest class of those are pilots and aircrew. In the Air Force with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, flight crew are immediately grounded. In other services, it usually is with hormone replacement therapy those aircrew become grounded. It's something that is not in line with how the FAA handles it for pilots.
For as long as he can remember, Pesqueira had an affinity with the military and dreams of joining. Growing up, he believed himself to be a boy and not until attending school and being bullied did he realize he was not living up to the female gender representation society expected of him. “I was in the box of conforming to society's expectations of who I should be since I was born female.”
Even in the face of evidence contradicting the necessity and constitutionality of the ban, Trump makes false claims. On ITV’s “Good Morning Britain,” the president recently said this about transgender troops: “They take massive amounts of drugs, they have to — and, also, you’re not allowed to take drugs in the military, and they have to after the operation. They have to. They have no choice. And you would actually have to break rules and regulations in order to have that.
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