Transgender US service members will be separated from military, Pentagon memo shows
A Pentagon memo indicates that transgender U.S. service members will be discharged unless exempted, per a new directive from President Trump. The military must identify and separate transgender personnel within 60 days, underscoring a policy shift...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month that took aim at transgender troops in a personal way - at one point saying that a man identifying as a woman was "not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member."
The memo said that the Pentagon must create a procedure to identify troops who are transgender within 30 days and then within 30 days of that must separate them from the military.
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