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Day 223

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1/ Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will allow transgender troops to continue serving in the military while the Pentagon studied the issue, delaying the implementation of Trump’s directive. Mattis will establish a “panel of experts serving within the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security” to provide advice and recommendations for putting Trump's order to bar transgender individuals from serving. Mattis has until February 21st to submit a plan for implementing the new policy. (USA Today / Politico)

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2017/08/30/day-223/
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Updated today’s blurb about Mattis and the transgender ban: Mattis did not “freeze” the transgender ban. USA Today reported that the defense secretary would delay the implementation of Trump’s directive and “allow” transgender troops to continue serving in the military while the Pentagon studied the issue. Instead, Mattis is doing what Trump directed him to do in his memo, which ordered the secretary of defense and the secretary of homeland security, to “determine how to address transgender individuals currently serving in the United States military.” Mattis has until February 21st to submit a plan for implementing the new policy.

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No major new info but Defense Secretary Mattis officially provided interim guidance today (September 15) to the Pentagon in a memo.

According to the Pentagon, Mattis made clear in his memo that the current policies on transgender troops remain in effect. He said transgender individuals can continue to serve in the military and continue to receive any required medical care.

That interim guidance laid out in the memo will stay in effect until Feb. 21, when the Pentagon must complete its final plan on how and when transgender individuals may serve in the military.

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#3 is Slate, not Salon.