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AnotherPat sends us a link about the impact of DOD’s new transgender policy and the effect it has on applicants to the Academy, and midshipmen currently enrolled. The new policy, which affects about 9,000 service members who self-identify as transgender, is in stark contrast to how the Obama administration released its policy in 2016 that allowed transgender individuals to serve openly. <\/p>\n
The new policy largely requires service members and those wishing to join the military to adhere to the standards associated with their biological sex.<\/p>\n
Officials said the policy was “not a ban on transgender individuals serving in the military” but focused on those diagnosed with gender dysphoria, defined as “a marked incongruence between one’s experienced\/expressed gender and assigned gender … associated with clinically significant distress and impairment of functioning.” The Pentagon argues the policy simply allows the department to deal with gender dysphoria as it would any other diagnosis or disorder that would impair someone’s ability to serve. <\/p>\n
All this of course created a mix of who is and isn’t eligible to serve, or remain in the service.<\/p>\n
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By: Danielle Ohl
\nTransgender people will be effectively banned from attending the Naval Academy beginning in the 2020 school year, the Defense Department confirmed Monday.<\/p>\nPolicy barring transgender people from serving in the United States military will also affect the Naval Academy, which has under previous policy accepted transgender students and retained midshipmen who want to transition during the course of their education.<\/p>\n
Naval Academy alumna Alex Marberry became one of the first sailors to transition after former Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter under the Obama administration lifted restrictions on service in 2016. A midshipman, Regan Kibby, is one of six service members suing the Trump administration for the ban.<\/p>\n
Those enrolled in the service academies for fall 2019 will fall under the previous military policy, said spokeswoman Jessica Maxwell. The Carter policy allowed transgender people to serve openly and covered medical expenses for gender affirmation surgery.<\/p>\n
But those applying to the Naval Academy for the 2020-2021 school year and beyond will be enrolled under former Defense Secretary James Mattis\u2019 2018 policy, which brings back restrictions on how transgender people can serve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Social Engineering of the military during the Obama administration, abetted by ‘Ash’ Carter will take years to fix, and its going to be a messy process. Here’s a start, and the other Service Academies will follow suit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"