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BREAKING:  Trump bans transgender individuals from serving in the military

• Trump announced Wednesday he is banning transgender individuals from serving in the military “in any capacity” — a surprise announcement that is sure to draw condemnation from LGBTQ groups.
  
• “After consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military,” Trump tweeted shortly after 9 a.m. This is a developing story (7/26/17 9:15 AM)
  

Well shit, hopefully this doesn’t play out as it looks like it’s going to however, and hopefully I am right that if it does, it’s not going to immediately happen overnight, the bureaucracy that is the military takes months/years to make policy changes. As it stood of yesterday Personnel already serving in the military who identifies transgendered and have come as such, I cannot promise this because I’m just a first-class an E6 and not a high-ranking policy maker, will more than likely be able to complete their service. The authorization for transgendered Personnel to join unfortunately was never implemented I recently found out about this it was delayed and will probably not happen during this presidency. if this follows the course the president wants then today does mark a sad day. I will not name the individual, but there is a person they are using as a figurehead to to say here’s why they shouldn’t be allowed in, and from a security standpoint they are not wrong and using this person, they are wrong on blaming the entire community on this one person. The actions of a minority in a subset should not dictate the course of action for the whole group.