Over 20 thousand people are eligible for relief after a class action suit on don't ask, don't tell was settled, says Jocelyn Larkin.
In the order, Trump declared that "expressing a false ‘gender identity' divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service" - a transgender troop's .
The "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy was institutionalized discrimination, plain and simple.
In December 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law ending the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on openly gay people serving in the military.
President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders that aim to reshape the US military's policies and priorities.
Troy Carlyle, a former Air Force captain, was dishonorably discharged for being gay and visiting a gay bar listed as off-limits by then-Fort Bragg.
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At the time, the Clinton-era “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was in effect, which prohibited service members like Marcewicz, then a lesbian, from sharing details of their sexual orientation.