Contents:
- WHAT THE MILARY GAY BAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT TMP’S ABE OF THE “NATNAL SECURY” RATNALE
- YOUNG AND LONELY: WHY SOME MILARY MEN REALLY FEAR LGBT PEOPLE AND GAY SEX
WHAT THE MILARY GAY BAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT TMP’S ABE OF THE “NATNAL SECURY” RATNALE
Acrdg to a RAND rearch study released 2016, there were timated to be 1, 320 to 6, 630 active transgenr service members before the ban was lifted last year, and another approximately 1, 500 on Human Rights Campaign, a proment gay rights group, has timated that there are more than 15, 000 active servg transgenr troops. "The Log Cab Republins, a group of gay nservativ, slammed Tmp's move, sayg "smacks of polics, pure and simple. Tmp's "statement this morng do a disservice to transgenr ary personnel and re-troduc the same hurtful stereotyp njured when openly gay men and women were barred om service durg the ary’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ era, " he add.
"In addn, Tmp told a crowd Hoton, Texas, June 2016 that he would be "far better for gays" than Hillary Dallas that same month, Tmp clared: "LGBT is startg to like Donald Tmp very much lately. “In that sense, is a perfect parallel to the failed ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, also sold as not beg a ban although signed to systemilly ph gay people out of ary service — or at least keep them silent and visible.
The origal trans ary service ban was a b different om the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that the ary ed to stop gay and bisexual people om servg openly. “Don’t ask, don’t tell, ” stuted 1994, was an explic policy that told gay and bisexual soldiers to stay quiet about their sexual orientatn or risk discharge.
YOUNG AND LONELY: WHY SOME MILARY MEN REALLY FEAR LGBT PEOPLE AND GAY SEX
There were still trans people the ary, jt as there were gay and bisexual people the ary durg “don’t ask, don’t tell. One month after the June 2016 shootg at the gay nightclub Pulse, Tmp promised durg his lengthy speech at the Republin Natnal Conventn to protect the targeted LGBTQ muny om Islamic Terrorism. Jt months earlier, March, Tmp told PEOPLE that he “would have liked to have seen [gay marriage laws be] a state thg, but the urts have led.