{"id":78879,"date":"2017-07-26T12:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78879"},"modified":"2017-07-26T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:06:22","slug":"trump-bars-transgender-people-from-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78879","title":{"rendered":"Trump Bars Transgender People From US Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_78880\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GetFile-3-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78880\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78880\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GetFile-3-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GetFile-3-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GetFile-3-3-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Saul Loeb\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would not allow transgender people to serve in the U.S. military in any capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow &#8230; Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,&#8221; Trump wrote in a series of posts on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>He specifically cited the &#8220;tremendous medical costs and disruption&#8221; that would be created by allowing transgender people in the military.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/890193981585444864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.Transgender individuals to  serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/890196164313833472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/890197095151546369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/trump-transgenger-military\/2017\/07\/26\/id\/803851\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/trump-transgenger-military\/2017\/07\/26\/id\/803851\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}