Trump's Transgender Military Ban: 5 Things You Need to Know

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

The Service Ban Also Includes a Ban on Funding Sex Change Operations

The U.S. Military will proceed its war games with South Korea this August amid threats from North Korea.
The U.S. Military will proceed its war games with South Korea this August amid threats from North Korea. | Reuters/Emmanuel Braun

In addition to banning transgender service members from the military, Trump's guidance memorandum also prohibits the Department of Defense from funding sex change operations for transgender personnel.

"The Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the U.S. Coast Guard, shall ... halt all use of DoD or DHS resources to fund sex reassignment surgical procedures for military personnel, except to the extent necessary to protect the health of an individual who has already begun a course of treatment to reassign his or her sex," stated the memorandum.

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This measure will not take effect until March 23, 2018, or after the general ban on transgender service members takes effect.

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