Marco Rubio files transgender military ban bill

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (FL)
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Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jim Banks (R-IN) have introduced a bill to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. military, effectively bringing back Donald Trump’s transgender military ban. But the two senators promise their bill is worse than Trump’s ban.

The bill, called the “Ensuring Military Readiness Act,” says “persons who identify as transgender with a history of diagnosis of gender dysphoria are disqualified from military service.” The bill provides a few narrow exceptions for some trans people who are willing to present as members of their sex assigned at birth.

While passing the bill in both chambers of Congress, getting it signed by the president, and having the military implement it would require a lot of time and attention be placed on transgender people in the military – all to ban the estimated 150,000 transgender servicemembers, some of whom have gone through years of training – Rubio said that the bill was necessary to…

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