The Trump transition team shot down a report from a British newspaper claiming that President-elect Donald Trump is planning an executive order that would remove all transgender troops from the military and prevent transgender people from joining the military.
Citing “defence sources,” British newspaper The Times reported that the order could come on Trump’s first day back in the White House. The order would reportedly go further than Trump went during his first administration when he ordered that transgender people could serve, but as their biological sex.
Trump transition team spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to the paper and other news outlets:
These unnamed sources are speculating and have no idea what they are actually talking about. No decisions on this issue have been made. No policy should ever be deemed official unless it comes directly from…
