“Donald Trump is planning an executive order that would lead to the removal of all transgender members of the U.S. military,” the Times of London reports.
“The order could come on his first day back in the White House, January 20. There are believed to be about 15,000 active service personnel who are transgender. They would be medically discharged, which would determine that they were unfit to serve.”
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