Trump Transition Team Denies Report They Plan on Discharging Transgender Military Personnel

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President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is denying a report that his incoming administration plans on discharging every transgender member of the U.S. military.

Earlier this week, reports began to surface that Trump planned on issuing an executive order to medically discharge all of the 15,000 active service members who identify transgender, as well as ban any transgender Americans from joining the military in the future.

During his last administration, Trump announced that he would be implementing a ban on military service by transgender people via Twitter, declaring, “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”

Despite that reporting and his policy during his last term, Trump’s team denies that it has made any decisions on this matter.

“These unnamed sources are speculating and have no idea what they are actually talking about. No policy should ever be deemed official unless it comes directly from President Trump or his authorized spokespeople,” incoming White House Press Secretary Karoline Levitt told Fox News Digital.

“No decisions on this issue have been made,” she added.

Trump made gender issues a key part of his successful campaign to retake the White House, pledging to ban permanent transition treatments for minors and running a pair of viral ads touting Vice President Kamala Harris’s comments on the issue, including one in which the narrator declared that “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.”