(OPINION) Donald Trump is planning to kick all transgender members out of the US military, it has been claimed.
And the unprecedented executive order could be launched on his first day back in the White House on January 20. Experts suggest there are over 15,000 active service personnel who are transgender.
They would be given a special medical discharge, which would determine them unfit to serve in the US military, a source reportedly claims.
Trump, 78, is also expected to go one further and issue an outright ban on transgender people joining the military – at a time when many US Army branches are struggling to hit recruitment targets.
The incoming US president has slated what he claims are ‘woke’ military practices and suggested that some top brasses are often more concerned about diversity, equality and inclusion than fighting.
Several sources reportedly told the Times even those with decades of service will be removed from their posts. One reportedly said: “These people will be forced out at a time when the military can’t recruit enough people.
Only the Marine Corps is hitting its numbers for recruitment and some people who will be affected are in very senior positions.”
Earlier this week Donald Trump Jr. accused Joe Biden of trying to start WWIII before his father can take office after the president allowed Ukraine to fire US-supplied missiles into Russia.
The decision is a major US policy shift and comes just two months before Donald Trump returns to the White House after winning the US election. Even before moving back into the Oval Office the president-elect has vowed to limit American support for Ukraine and end the war as soon as possible.
