{"id":125823,"date":"2017-07-26T10:02:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125823"},"modified":"2017-07-26T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:02:11","slug":"trump-to-bar-transgenders-from-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125823","title":{"rendered":"Trump to bar transgenders from armed forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-122655\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Trumprosegarden-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump says he will bar transgender individuals from serving &#8220;in any capacity&#8221; in the U.S. armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said on Twitter Wednesday that after consulting with &#8220;Generals and military experts,&#8221; that the government &#8220;will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump added that &#8220;Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Transgender service members have been able to serve openly in the military since last year, when former Defense Secretary Ash Carter ended the ban.<\/p>\n<p>Military chiefs recently announced a delay on allowing transgender people from enlisting. But transgender troops are already serving openly in the military.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump says he will bar transgender individuals from serving &#8220;in any capacity&#8221; in the U.S. armed forces. Trump said on Twitter Wednesday that after consulting with &#8220;Generals and military experts,&#8221; that the government &#8220;will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125824,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125823\/revisions\/125824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}