TRUMP ON TRANSGENDER SERVICEMEN.

Trump promised to support LGBT rights.  Looks like Jeff Sessions (first Senator to endorse Trump, helped his campaign) isn't the only person being stabbed in the back.

"The Joint Chiefs of Staff, including chairman General Joseph Dunford, were not aware President Donald Trump planned to tweet a ban on transgender service members, three US defense officials told CNN -- the latest indication that top military leaders across all four service branches were blindsided by the President's announcement.

For now, Dunford has informed service members that there will be "no modifications to the current policy until the President's direction has been received by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary has issued implementation guidelines."

"In the meantime, we will continue to treat all of our personnel with respect," Dunford wrote in a memo to the military that was obtained by CNN. "As importantly, given the current fight and the challenges we face, we will all remain focused on accomplishing our assigned missions."

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Thursday that, to date, he has not received "directives on implementation" for a ban and learned about the President's decision through the media.

"We will work through the implementation guidance when we get it and then we'll move from there," he added while speaking at the National Press Club.

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Trump announced Wednesday that transgender individuals would no longer be allowed to enlist or serve in the military.

"After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military," Trump said in a series of tweets. "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail."

His tweets came less than a month into the six-month delay set by Defense Secretary James Mattis to review the US military's policy on transgender service members."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/trump-military-transgender-ban-joint-chiefs/

 

Other sources say that the General was notified.  If he wasn't I guess Trump doesn't need Joint Chiefs of Staff. Why not wait for the report?