Pentagon to lift Trump-era ban on transgender troops
“Trans rights are human rights,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, “and on this #TransDayOfVisibility, I’m pleased to announce we ve updated DoD policy on the open service of transgender individuals.”
Reversing one of former President Donald Trump’s most egregious civil rights rollbacks, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday International Transgender Day of Visibility that it would soon allow openly trans people to serve in the U.S. military.
In a statement, the Pentagon said that as of April 30, the Defense Department’s Obama-era policy which for the first time allowed trans people to serve would be restored, “provided all appropriate standards are met.”
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) – March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, a day for transgender and nonbinary people to unite the community and its allies, and fight against discrimination and violence. A balloon release outside The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada was just one of several local events marking the day. “Being trans doesn’t make you any less of a human being,” event organizer Nickollii Warner said. Warner is a trans man who.
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Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility and State College Mayor Ronald Filippelli has signed a proclamation officially recognizing the day in the borough.
IDOV, as the day is otherwise known, was created back in 2009 to celebrate and empower transgender people across the globe.
In the borough of State College, Mayor Filippelli say the awareness and acceptance of diversity is exemplified by the presence of Penn State University.
The school has an abundance of people with different races, nationalities, religious beliefs and sexual orientations, and the borough wants to celebrate and protect those differences.
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Raymond Duda, FBI Special Agent in Charge in Seattle, speaks as he stands next to a poster that was mailed earlier in the year to the home of Chris Ingalls, an investigative reporter with KING-TV in Seattle, Feb. 26, 2020, during a news conference in Seattle (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
SEATTLE (AP) A US federal judge declined to impose prison time Wednesday on a former member of a neo-Nazi ring that threatened journalists, finding that the 21-year-old who concealed his transgender identity from his co-conspirators had already suffered enough in his young life.
Taylor Parker-Dipeppe, of Spring Hill, Florida, was charged in early 2020 along with three other members of the Atomwaffen Division, a white supremacist group.
Austin has also called for a reexamination of the records of service members who were discharged or denied reenlistment because of gender identity issues under the previous policy. Stephanie Miller, the director of military accession policy, told reporters there is no data yet on how many people that may be.
Until a few years ago, service members could be discharged from the military for being transgender, but that changed during the Obama administration. In 2016, the Pentagon announced that transgender people already serving in the military would be allowed to serve openly, and that by July 2017 they would be allowed to enlist.