Tag: Pentagon
HRC: Mike Huckabee is Blinded by His Own Bigotry, Unfit to be Commander in Chief
Other candidates should immediately condemn Huckabee’s smear of Eric Fanning.
TLDEF Responds to Pentagon Plan To End Transgender Military Ban
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) today welcomed the Department of Defense’s announcement that it is taking steps to lift the ban on open transgender military service.
Pentagon To Lift Ban On Transgender Service Members
Today, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced the establishment of a working group to study the “policy and readiness implications” of allowing transgender service members to serve openly. The working group will “start with the presumption that transgender persons can serve openly without adverse impact on military effectiveness and readiness, unless and except where objective, practical impediments are identified.”
On Memorial Day, TLDEF Urges Pentagon to End Ban on Open Transgender Military Service
As the nation commemorates Memorial Day, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) honours the transgender men and women who lost their lives in the line of duty and renews its call for the Defense Department to allow transgender people to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces.
U.S. military urged to follow Canada on transgender recruits
Pentagon rules prohibit transgender people from serving in military.
USA : HRC Calls on Pentagon to Revise Regulations on Transgender Service
With the publication of a study on transgender military service released today by the Palm Center, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Vice President for Government Affairs Allison Herwitt released the following statement: