Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
BIDEN LIFTS TRUMP'S TRANS MILITARY BAN
announced the ban via Twitter in July 2017, claiming that allowing trans people to serve openly interfered with military readiness and that their health care was too costly for the government to support.
Numerous studies have contradicted such claims, and Biden referred to them in the fact sheet.The ban took effect in 2019. There has not been a mass discharge of the thousands of trans people who were already serving, as most of them are considered “grandfathered” in, but new enlistments of trans people have been blocked.President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Ash Carter had lifted an earlier ban in 2016.
Unlike the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on service by lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, the trans ban could be lifted by executive.
