GLAAD On Transgender Service Ban: Trump Goal Is Erase LGBTQ Americans

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM Published JULY 26, 2017 10:53 AM

An LGBTQ media advocacy organization lambasted President Donald Trump’s announcement Wednesday that he was ordering a ban on the service of transgender people in the U.S. military.

Trump’s decision reversed an Obama-era policy to allow service from openly transgender soldiers, and followed what was a six-month delay of that policy announced by Defense Secretary James Mattis on June 30.

“President Trump today issued a direct attack on transgender Americans, and his administration will stop at nothing to implement its anti-LGBTQ ideology within our government – even if it means denying some of our bravest Americans the right to serve and protect our nation,” the group’s president and CEO, Kate Ellis, said in a statement. “Today further exposed President Trump’s overall goal to erase LGBTQ Americans from this nation. Trump has never been a friend to LGBTQ Americans, and this action couldn’t make that any more clear.”

The organization’s statement continued: “Today’s anti-LGBTQ announcement summarizes the full-scale attack on LGBTQ Americans by the Trump Administration. Since President Trump’s inauguration, the administration has stopped at nothing to erase LGBTQ acceptance from the federal government.”

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[RKP5637]

1. It's so obvious, the goal of Trump and his cohorts is to kill off or disenfranchise millions of

Americans. People don't like to hear the Hitler comparison, but FFS, one has to wonder. Supposedly some of his favorite reads are Nazi literature ... supposedly Mein Kampf.

[thesquanderer]

4. I think his most obvious goal is to un-do anything Obama did.

All he wants is for Obama to go down as a president who ended up accomplishing absolutely nothing. Everything else is secondary.

[RKP5637]

5. Definitely that too! The good part is, history will judge Trump for the creep he is, but the

horrible part is his path of destruction.

[nycbos]

2. But tell me again how there was no difference between Trump and Clinton.

OF course purity is more important than victory. Getting 80% of what is a sellout to the establishment. It is 100% or nothing.


The People's Front of Judea must continue their fight with the Judean People's Front and the Popular People's Front.

[jmowreader]

3. They're both ostensibly from Earth, but is Trump's case that's uncertain

[Doreen]

6. Of course you all realize he means all LGBTQ people and

not just transgender? What an evil Mofo.

[sarcasmo]

7. VP Pence goal for sure, these Religious twits are insane.

[Blue_Tires]

8. So why doesn't the media ever go out to Trump country

and ask the yokels what they think about this stuff instead of the usual softball bullshit?