So You Want To Join The Military But…

Trump’s Executive Order banned you from joining well relief is on its way.

Biden Plans These 5 Executive Orders
Forbes
By Zack Friedman
November 8, 2020


President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign these five executive orders when he becomes president.

Here’s what you need to know—and it how it could impact you.

Executive Orders
On January 20, 2021, Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. As soon as his first day in office, Biden plans to sign at least five executive orders that could reverse several of President Donald Trump’s policies. He’ll also focus on addressing the Covid-19 pandemic, improving the economy and providing financial stimulus. These executive orders may include:
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5. Military Ban
Biden plans to repeal the transgender military ban.
While Trump banned the practice through executive order in 2017, Biden would undo Trump’s policy.
Specifically, Biden, as commander in chief, would allow a transgender individual to serve openly in the U.S. military.

If the Senate stays in Republican control they will not be able to block the EOs because the Democrats still control the House.

Aspiring U.S. trans soldiers call on Biden to end military ban
Thomson Reuters Foundation
By Hugo Greenhalgh
8 November 2020


As Joe Biden began his first full day as U.S. president-elect, a group of transgender military aspirants and campaign groups insisted that one of his first priorities must be to overturn a ban on new transgender personnel serving in the U.S. military.
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Nic Talbott, a plaintiff in one of four lawsuits filed in federal courts challenging the ban, said he was hopeful that Biden's victory could transform his life.

As a trans man, he has been banned from joining the U.S. military, a dream he has held since childhood. He had been in the process of joining the Air Force National Guard but ended up working in a local Walmart in the midwestern state of Ohio.

"I was incredibly emotional when I first heard the news of Mr Biden's victory," Talbott, 27, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email on Sunday.
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In April, John Roberts, a trans man who wants to join the National Guard, a reserve branch of the military, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that the ban was "probably the most frustrating thing I've had to deal with in my entire life".

"I'm ready, I'm here, I'm willing, I'm qualified. I want to get out there. And I want to help," he said.

One thing that Trump taught us… the power of the Executive Orders. I think you will see President-elect Biden use them a lot more if he can’t get passed the Republican controlled Senate.

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However, with the Republicans controlling the Senate the Equality Act seems dead until the Democrats take control of both of the chambers and the presidency.

Equality Act hangs in the balance as Democrats falter in Senate races
USA Today
By Kate Sosin
November 12, 2020


On May 14, 1974, Rep. Bella Abzug, a feminist icon in the women’s rights movement, introduced one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation ever ignored. It had just one co-sponsor.

The 10-page bill never moved out of committee. Had it passed, it would have amended the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. It was called the Equality Act.

The bill’s modern iteration moved closer to passage with Joe Biden’s projected win on Nov. 7. But maybe not close enough.

Jasmine Smith marches in Philadelphia's Pride parade in 2019. LGBTQ rights activists are watching to see if President-elect Joe Biden will deliver on his promise to pass the Equality Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, in the first 100 days of his term.

Biden has vowed to pass the Equality Act within his first 100 days in office, an unexpected commitment as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic. To do that, however, he will need the backing of a sharply partisan Senate. The bill easily cleared the Democrat-dominated House last year. Its chances of surviving the Senate, where it looks like Republicans will maintain control, is questionable.

The act hangs in Limbo until January 5 when Georgia has the election runoff.

The future of LGBT+ rights in the US won’t be certain until next year – and could hinge on these two Georgia Democrats
Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump is being hailed as a cause for celebration by LGBT+ groups, but campaigners fear real progress could hinge on the outcome of two Senate races in Georgia that won’t be held until January.
Pink News
By Nick Duffy
November 10, 2020


As the [sic] prepare to take office on January 20, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have vowed to work quickly to unpick the raft of executive actions taken by the Trump administration to undermine LGBT+ equality – with the ban on transgender people in the military as well as hostile ‘freedom to discriminate’ rules likely destined for the chopping block.
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The final make-up of the chamber will not be known until January, when the state of Georgia will hold an unusual double run-off election for the two remaining vacancies.

While election day is usually decisive in the majority of states, Georgia’s unusual election laws require a run-off vote in cases where no candidate wins more than 50 per cent of the vote.

Which I support. I believe that if an election has three or more candidates and none of them gets 50 percent of the votes then the top two should have a runoff election.

Ossoff and Warnock are both LGBT+ rights supporters and have both committed to co-sponsor and vote in favour of the Equality Act, should they be elected.

By contrast, Perdue opposes the Equality Act and has voted for bills to undermine LGBT+ discrimination protections, and Loeffler has previously put forward bills seeking to legally erase transgender children.

You know that the Republicans will not pass anything with the word “equality” in the bill. They think that it is their God giving right to discriminate and to hide their discrimination behind God.