memo, authored by retired Rear Admiral Alan Steinman, M.D., the former Surgeon General equivalent of the U.S. Coast Guard, was released on the website of the Palm Center, a think tank that advocates for LGBTQ people to serve openly.
In the memo, which was endorsed by nine major military, LGBTQ, and progressive groups who support ending the Trump administration’s severe restrictions on transgender service — which require transgender individuals to continue serving in their assigned sex at birth or risk being discharged — claims that the service branches have all the infrastructure and required elements that would allow them to rapidly reverse the ban.Part of the reason is because the Trump ban kept in place a two-tiered system regarding.