Tag: Service Members
Transgender services members sue Donald Trump over military ban
Transgender members of the U.S armed services have gone to court to challenge Donald Trump’s ban on their joining the military.
TLDEF Condemns Reported Ban on Transgender Military Health Care and Deployment
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund today responded to reports that the White House is forwarding guidance to military officials that directs Defense Secretary James Mattis to implement policy within six months to cease all transgender-related medical treatment and to use standards of “deployability” to filter out transgender service members.
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.
5 Actions the Obama Administration Can Take Immediately to Improve the Lives of LGBT Service Members
Yesterday, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators sent a letter to the Secretary of Defense strongly urging him to update equal opportunity policies across the Department of Defense “to prevent discrimination, harassment or intimidation of service members based on sexual orientation” – an important step the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organisation, has repeatedly called for.