{"id":186671,"date":"2017-08-02T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/retired-military-leaders-sign-letter-opposing-transgender-troop-ban\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:00:55","slug":"retired-military-leaders-sign-letter-opposing-transgender-troop-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/retired-military-leaders-sign-letter-opposing-transgender-troop-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Military Leaders Sign Letter Opposing Transgender Troop Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"row\">\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2  text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\"><!-- react-text: 221 -->More than 50 retired generals and admirals from every branch of the U.S. military penned a letter Tuesday condemning President Trump&#8217;s upcoming <!-- \/react-text --><!-- react-text: 223 -->ban of transgender troops<!-- \/react-text --><\/a><!-- react-text: 224 -->.<!-- \/react-text --><\/p>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2  text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\"><!-- react-text: 226 -->The 56 officers from the United States Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard argued that implementing the President&#8217;s ban would reduce the readiness of the military, according to the letter sent to the Palm Center obtained by TIME.<!-- \/react-text --><\/p>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2  text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\"><!-- react-text: 229 -->&#8220;This proposed ban, if implemented, would cause significant disruptions, deprive the military of mission-critical talent, and compromise the integrity of transgender troops who would be forced to live a lie, as well as non-transgender peers who would be forced to choose between reporting their comrades or disobeying policy,&#8221; the officers said in the letter. &#8220;As a result, the proposed ban would degrade readiness even more than the failed \u2018don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell\u2019 policy.<!-- \/react-text --><\/p>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2  text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\"><!-- react-text: 231 -->&#8220;Patriotic transgender Americans who are serving\u2014and who want to serve\u2014must not be dismissed, deprived of medically necessary health care, or forced to compromise their integrity or hide their identity,&#8221; the letter added.<!-- \/react-text --><\/p>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2  text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\"><!-- react-text: 233 -->Trump <!-- \/react-text --><!-- react-text: 235 -->announced his plan<!-- \/react-text --><\/a><!-- react-text: 236 --> to bar transgender troops from the military in a series of tweets last week.<!-- \/react-text --><\/p>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2  text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\"><!-- react-text: 238 -->&#8220;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,&#8221; he said in the tweets.<!-- \/react-text --><\/p>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 end text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4\"><!-- react-text: 240 -->A study by independent military research firm RAND Corporation found that <!-- \/react-text --><!-- react-text: 242 -->medical services for transgender soldiers<!-- \/react-text --><\/a><!-- react-text: 243 --> would amount to, at most, $8.4 million a year \u2014 an increase of 0.13% and just 0.005\u20130.017% of the Defense Department\u2019s total health care budget.<!-- \/react-text --><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50 retired generals and admirals from every branch of the U.S. military penned a letter Tuesday condemning President Trump&#8217;s upcoming ban of transgender troops. 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