All posts tagged "pentagon"
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Air Force secretary expects review of military’s transgender ban
The military’s longstanding ban on open transgender service is likely to face review within the next year, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said in...
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Hagel urged to act on military’s transgender ban before departure
Chuck Hagel is facing renewed calls to order a review of the military’s longstanding ban on transgender service.
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Pentagon officials sued for denying Chelsea Manning medical treatment
Lawyers for Chelsea Manning filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and other Defense Department and Army officials in federal court Tuesday for...
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Commission charts path for open transgender military service
More than three months after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the White House voiced support for a review of the military’s ban on transgender service,...
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Transgender military equality: The plan of attack
Inside the fight for transgender equality in the American military
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Hagel says military’s transgender ban should be reviewed
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel indicated his openness to reviewing the military’s longstanding ban on transgender servicemembers. “I do think it continually should be reviewed,”...
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Updated Pentagon ‘Human Goals Charter’ includes gay, omits transgender
Top military officials Monday attached their signatures to the Defense Department’s updated Human Goals Charter that for the first time is inclusive of gay servicemembers,...
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Independent commission finds no justification for military’s transgender ban
There is no compelling medical rationale for banning transgender people from serving in the American military, an independent commission led by a former U.S. surgeon...
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Hagel orders full National Guard compliance for same-sex benefits
Nearly two months after several states began blocking requests for benefits by members of the National Guard with a same-sex spouse, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel...
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Extension of same-sex military benefits off to rough start
The Pentagon’s extension of benefits to same-sex military families continues to face setbacks and roadblocks one month after the updated policy was implemented, now with...
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Little federal response to states blocking same-sex military benefits
Oklahoma became the latest state to stand in defiance of a Pentagon order by halting the processing of requests for benefits from members of the...
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Pentagon extends benefits, including marriage leave, to same-sex military families
Same-sex families will receive equal treatment by the military in less than one month’s time, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. In a memo dated Aug. 13...
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Chuck Hagel celebrates LGBT Pride month at Pentagon event
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel marked June as LGBT Pride month at an event at the Pentagon today, describing gay and lesbian servicemembers as “integral...
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Defense bill with anti-gay provision under veto threat
The White House has threatened to veto a defense spending bill that includes an anti-gay provision advocates say would open the door to discrimination in...
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Pentagon marks LGBT Pride Month while omitting trans servicemembers
The Pentagon will again commemorate June as LGBT Pride Month this year, according to a memorandum distributed by the Defense Department office that oversees diversity....
