Editor’s note: The following piece by San Diego LGBT Weekly publisher Stampp Corbin was originally published on HuffPost June 6, 2015. As usual, our publisher was prescient in his assessment of Donald Trump and what was going to happen. We have all watched with great interest the transition of Caitlyn Jenner who has finally become…
WASHINGTON — Today, over 200 leaders from the LGBTQ civil rights movement are gathered in Alexandria just across the river from Washington, D.C. for the annual Equality Federation Leadership Conference as President Trump announced his intention, in a series of tweets, to ban transgender people from serving in the military. Standing united against the shameful…
With President Trump’s announcement this morning to ban transgender Americans from openly serving in the United States military, the administration has now fed into the demands of anti-LGBTQ organizations including the Heritage Foundation, an organization that has worked tirelessly and for decades to effectively erase transgender Americans from the fabric of this nation. In light…
Reaction continues following President Donald Trump’s tweets this morning unilaterally reinstating a ban on all transgender service members. Calling the ban horrifying, American Military Partner Association (AMPA) President Ashley Broadway-Mack said, “This is a horrifying, vicious attack on thousands of actively serving troops in the military who happen to be transgender. Transgender service members are…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced today that he is barring transgender people from serving in any capacity in the U.S. military. In a series of tweets Trump said that, “After consultation with my Generals and military experts …” the U.S. government would not allow transgender individuals to serve in the military “in any capacity.”…
https://youtu.be/zz_S_xsA94c WASHINGTON – During congressional testimony on Wednesday night, Duncan Hunter made a series of disturbing remarks concerning trans men and women serving in the military. The five-term incumbent, currently under a congressional investigation for allegedly using tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to pay for family vacations to Hawaii, private school tuition…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Defense (DoD) is delaying the implementation of a new policy that will eventually allow transgender people to enlist and commission into the military. The delay will not prevent the thousands of currently serving transgender troops from continuing to serve. According to a report last week, the service chiefs recommended the six…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — AP has reported that the Pentagon may delay implementation of the final piece of a policy put into place by the Obama administration that allows qualified transgender people to serve in the Armed Forces. While transgender service members serve openly today thanks to a change implemented last year under the previous administration,…
WASHINGTON — Today, the American Military Partner Association (AMPA), the nation’s largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) military families, expressed outrage over the Trump Administration’s decision to rescind Obama administration guidance from the Department of Justice (DoJ) and Department of Education (DoE) that ensured transgender students are treated with dignity and respect….
Now is the time for all good transgender Americans to come to the aid of their country. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter recently announced the military would no longer discriminate against transgender troops. All LGBT troops can serve openly without concerns over expressions of their sexuality. “This is the right thing to do for our…
