Pelosi blasts Trump's transgender order: 'Hatred will never defeat pride'
Source: the hill
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday slammed President Trump’s call to ban all transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military and vowed to fight the president’s proposal.
“69 years ago, President Truman desegregated the US Military. This morning, @POTUS turned anti-#trans prejudice into policy,” Pelosi wrote on Twitter.
“.@realDonaldTrump’s decision to ban transgender Americans from the military is a vile attack on brave individuals defending our country.”
Pelosi said it is “disgusting” to see members of the LGBT community “devalued for a hateful political agenda.”
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His declaration constitutes a major shift in military policy and comes a year after the Obama administration lifted the ban on letting transgender individuals openly serve.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/343861-pelosi-hits-trumps-transgender-order-hatred-will-never-defeat-pride
She has several tweets on this issue. Here is one.
Link to tweet
ALSO:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-military-idUSKBN1AB1TM
...............The House of Representatives' top Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, noted that a Pentagon-commissioned study determined the cost of providing medically necessary transition-related care involving transgender service members would amount to about one-100th of 1 percent of the military's healthcare budget.
The study put the cost at $2.4 million to $8.4 million a year of the more than $50 billion the Defense Department spends on healthcare.
"Once again, President Trump has shown his conduct is driven not by honor, decency, or national security, but by raw prejudice," Pelosi said. ......................
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