Transgender Service Members Can Stay For Now – Mike Malloy

Posted by Mike Malloy | Sep 5, 2017 | Mike Malloy Show, Military, Politics | 0 |

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is leaving an Obama-era policy on transgender military service members largely intact, saying he needs input from an expert panel to determine the best way to implement President Trump’s ban that would keep transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.

Trump barred transgender would-be recruits from signing up, but he gave Mattis discretion to decide the status of transgender people who are already serving.

Mattis says he’ll convene the panel from the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, with the goal of promoting “military readiness, lethality, and unit cohesion” — while also following legal and budgetary constraints. Mike Malloy discusses this.

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Mike Malloy

Mike Malloy produces a two-hour podcast that can be heard online Monday through Friday from 9P until 11P ET. His radio experience includes two 50,000 watt blow-torches: WSB-AM in Atlanta and WLS-AM in Chicago. He was one of the original hosts on Air America Radio, and he wrote and produced for CNN (1984-87) and CNN-International (2000). He is the only radio talk show host in America to have received the A.I.R (Achievement in Radio) Award in both Chicago and New York City, the nation’s number three and number one radio markets respectively.