(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)President Trump issued an order late Friday that supports a ban on many transgender troops, deferring to a new Pentagon plan that essentially cancels a policy adopted by the Obama administration. The decision revokes a full ban that Trump issued last summer but disqualifies U.S. troops who have had gender reassignment surgery, as recommended by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. “By its very nature, military service requires sacrifice,” Mattis wrote in a memo to the president that was released Friday. Federal judges allowed transgender service members to continue serving under the old ban and permitted transgender recruits to join the military as well. “There is no evidence to support a policy that bars from military service patriotic Americans who are medically fit and able to deploy.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2018 02:24 UTC