House votes to condemn Trump’s transgender military ban
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(Worthy News) – The House passed a resolution formally condemning the Trump administration’s transgender military ban in a 238-185 vote on Thursday.
Five Republicans joined every Democrat in backing the measure, which was spearheaded by Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), who serves as the chair of the Equality Caucus’s Transgender Equality Task Force.
The resolution’s passage comes shortly after the administration announced that the requirement for members of the military to serve as the gender they were assigned at birth would be implemented next month, effectively undoing the Obama administration’s policy from June 2016. [ SourceL The Hill (Read More…) ]
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