WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Transgender U.S. service members will be separated from the military unless they receive an exemption, according to a Pentagon memo filed in court on Wednesday.
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.
(Reporting by Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart and Ismail Shakil. Editing by Gerry Doyle)
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