after ten years, lbgtq members of the military who were discharged under the don t ask don t tell policy are finally getting access to the benefits they missed out on. last week the department of veterans affairs announced new guidelines to extend benefits to veterans discharged for simply being gay. on wednesday the house committee on veterans affairs heard testimony from veterans and civil rights advocates about the long-term impact of the former policy. the don t ask don t tell don t pursue and don t harass law was meant to end america s decades long legal ban on anything identifying at lgbtq from serving in the military. what the policy really did was make it so people in the military could not ask each other about their sexual
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to being transgender or just a human being in the military so this is a tactic to push people out it s absolutely banned regardless of the pentagon would like to tell people when the president when he first announced this policy he said in part a military must be focused and cannot be burdened with the disruption that transgender in the military wouldn t tale so essentially saying they re transgender troops or distraction is that true in your experience. no and you know even in my experience you can just as the experts the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff the highest ranking military officer in the united states mark milley has already said there have been zero issues with transgender troops openly serving in the military the chief of every service branch have said exactly the same thing before the senate armed services committee and numerous retired military generals and admirals have said as much in fact the rand institute which is in our big defense think tank here in the unite
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pronouns of their biological sex president trump first announced the policy in twenty seventeen on twitter in a series of tweets he wrote this after consultation with my generals and military experts please be advised that the united states government will not accept or lao transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the us 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 and anyone undergoing gender reassignment surgery will not be allowed to enlist that s putting pressure on transgender recruits or serving their country for under brokerage the transgender kicked off a dramatic race against time the army intelligence analyst had to decide whether to start gender reassignment surgery or risk losing his job in future. where i initially was planning to you know spend several months probably you know really
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would be minimal or negligible effect on the military unit ready unit cohesion or military readiness if transgender troops were allowed to serve openly and if i thought it s come to pass in three years and three years of transitor been able to serve openly there have been zero problems and we have this from our top military leaders so it s not a matter of debate at this point we ve already settled this issue there is no burden on the military that comes from transgender service members serving openly. now you mentioned the don t ask don t tell policy that was the policy as you mentioned preventing gays lesbians and bisexuals from serving openly in the military that policy lasted nearly two decades it was finally overturned in twenty eleven how long do you think now this particular policy will last. i think at most we re going to elect a democratic president in two thousand and twenty or at least someone who has far more sense than this coward in office and we will have someone in the o
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