ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy will ban people who are transgender from attending the school, beginning with the 2020 school year.
The Defense Department confirmed the policy change to the Capital Gazette on Monday. The school in Annapolis, Maryland, currently accepts transgender students and retains midshipmen who transition to another gender.
The change follows a policy shift under the Trump Administration to bar people who are transgender from serving in the military. The new policy applies to students enrolled in the 2020-21 school year and beyond.
The Obama Administration lifted restrictions on transgender service members in 2016. It allows them to serve openly and covered gender affirmation surgery.
Midshipman Regan Kibby, currently enrolled in the academy, is one of six service members suing the Trump administration over its ban.
Excellent.
and that’s why elections are important.
About time. After all the Navy has always been 110% heterosexual on all those long voyages…
Gotta keep things pure…
…To be followed by the unbanning on January 21, 2021.
I never really understood why people who hate gays, transgenders and others want to ensure that those same people can’t be put in harms way in battle.
Seems like if you really hated them, you’d want them on the front lines.