{"id":66531,"date":"2016-06-25T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66531"},"modified":"2016-06-25T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T13:30:06","slug":"transgender-ban-may-be-lifted-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66531","title":{"rendered":"Transgender ban may be lifted next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, it&#8217;s just a rumor at this point, but anonymous sources have told the media that the Obama Administration plans to lift the ban on open transgender service in the military next Friday, July 1st, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/jun\/24\/transgender-military-ban-be-lifted-july-1\/\">Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An unnamed Defense official said top personnel plan to meet on Monday to finalize the details of the plan, which comes after nearly a year of behind-the-scenes deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>The official said Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work could sign off on it by Wednesday, with final approval coming from Defense Secretary Ash Carter by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>LGBT-rights groups praised the impending announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt long last, thousands of brave transgender patriots will be able to serve our nation openly with the respect they deserve,\u201d Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin said in a statement. \u201cThis historic announcement will not only extend long-overdue recognition to thousands of transgender service members, it will strengthen our military and our nation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course there are thousands of tiny details that need to be worked out beforehand, not to mention that someone needs to tell me how this helps us to kill more of our nation&#8217;s enemies. How, exactly, it &#8220;strengthens our military&#8221;. But, hey, the Army gets to roll up their sleeves &#8211; if they can work out the finer details of that huge issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, it&#8217;s just a rumor at this point, but anonymous sources have told the media that &hellip; <a title=\"Transgender ban may be lifted next month\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66531\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transgender ban may be lifted next month<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}