Mr. Trump’s tweets were part of an effort to woo conservative Republicans and resolve a dispute that threatened a roughly $790 billion military spending bill. But the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” did not address the question of how to treat transgender people in the military. It announced in June 2016 that transgender service members could serve openly, and that the Defense Department would work to figure out how to allow transgender recruits. But since the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the issue of L.G.B.T. Besides Mr. Graham, seven other Republican senators indicated that they would not support throwing transgender people out of the military.

Source: New York Times July 27, 2017 16:09 UTC