The president’s tweet today announcing a blanket prohibition on transgender Americans from serving the nation we love is needlessly discriminatory and dishonors the selfless service of the thousands of transgender people who have served with distinction for 242 years, including the countless number who serve here in the greater Washington DC area today.
The question is not whether transgender people can or will serve. They have, they are, and they will serve. The question is whether patriotic Americans who have volunteered to lay down their lives in defense of this great nation will be subject to pointless discrimination by the very government they serve.