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In a series of Wednesday morning tweets, President Donald Trump announced that the United States military has banned transgender people from serving ‘in any capacity.’
Trump’s reasoning was because the military must be ‘focused on decisive and overwhelming victory ‘, they cannot be ‘burdened with the tremendous cost and disruption’ of transgender peoples.
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“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 US military.
Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous cost and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.”
Trump’s decision is a reversal of an Obama-era policy established in June 2016 by former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who shifted Pentagon policy to allow transgender troops to serve openly.
Naturally, his decision was met with backlash from mostly everyone in the nation, including all sorts of celebrities who took to Twitter to voice their displeasure:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/890221559293460480
https://twitter.com/paulfeig/status/890217531511799808
https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/890221802307244033
https://twitter.com/Zendaya/status/890313131263639552
https://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/890322935898140672
https://twitter.com/JohnMayer/status/890321348521738240
https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/890238503266656256
https://twitter.com/CharlizeAfrica/status/890231018879188992
https://twitter.com/ddlovato/status/890226347687071748
https://twitter.com/Andy/status/890200382500208640
https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/890248260253863937
https://twitter.com/kerrywashington/status/890250960265773061
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/890204649717997569
https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/890230164138868736
https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/890231122906329088
https://twitter.com/ikebarinholtz/status/890205748130533377
