Nearly 60 percent of Americans said transgender people should be allowed to serv...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - Nearly 60 percent of Americans said transgender people should be allowed to serve in the U.S. armed forces, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll conducted ahead of a congressional panel’s review, set for Wednesday, of Trump administration curbs on transgender service.
The high court’s ruling and the President Donald Trump’s policy have dismayed some transgender service members, such as Army Sergeant First Class Kai Landeros, 38. In the service since 2005 and twice deployed to Iraq, he is based at Fort Huachuca in Arizona,“You put forth your best effort every single day, something that you love doing and then to be told you shouldn’t be in the military ... when you are fully capable and competent of serving. I don’t see why there should be an issue,” he said.
Trump in 2017 announced a plan to ban transgender people from the military, reversing Democratic former President Barack Obama’s policy of allowing transgender troops to serve openly and get medical transition care. After several federal courts blocked both versions of administration’s policy as unconstitutional, the government asked the Supreme Court to intervene. It lifted lower court injunctions, but did not resolve the underlying question of the legality of the Republican president’s plan.
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