LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By SAAGAR ENJETI Secretary of Defense James Mattis will establish an expert panel to develop recommendations on how to implement President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender personnel in the U.S. military, he said in a Tuesday statement. Mattis’s statement follows Trump’s official order to the U.S. military Friday barring any new transgender…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke President Donald Trump issued a ban on transgender people serving in the military to ensure that House Conservatives didn’t derail their own spending bill, which was packed with administration priorities including funds for the border wall. Trump’s stunning Twitter announcement came after defense hawks and social conservatives…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Combat veteran J.R. Salzman said Wednesday morning in the wake of President Donald Trump’s military transgender ban that a war theater is no place for the gender confused. In a tweet series, Salzman recounted his experiences in Iraq in 2006, when he was stationed at an isolated…