Mike Pence & a hate group leader are behind Trump’s new trans military ban

By Alex Bollinger

Multiple sources are saying that Mike Pence – along with some anti-LGBTQ activists – wrote the report behind Donald Trump‘s new transgender military ban.

The White House released a plan on Friday night to purge transgender people from the military, which revoked the previous transgender military ban that was announced last year.

Accompanying the new plan was a memo signed by Defense Secretary James Mattis and a report from the Department of Defense.

Multiple sources told Slate that Mike Pence “played a leading role in the creation of this report,” along with anti-transgender activists Ryan Anderson and Tony Perkins.

Anderson works at the right wing Heritage Foundation and recently wrote When Harry Became Sally, a book that claims that being transgender is a mental illness based on the narratives of “ex-transgender” people. Perkins works for the Family Research Council, an SPLC designated hate group.

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