Former Navy Secretary criticises Trump’s proposed trans military ban

Ray Mabus, who served as Navy Secretary under Barrack Obama from 2009 to 2017, has heavily criticised President Trump’s proposed ban on transgender people serving in the US military, reports The Hill.

Answering questions at the Veterans in Global Leadership event in Washington DC, Mabus said: “[It] strikes me as the dumbest government policy you could possibly pursue, and it weakens us and hurts our military.

“It worries me that we have a president who makes decisions by whim and by tweet about how we’re going to use our military,” he said. “To have [our policy] reversed in a tweet with no evidence, no thought, nothing, it’s breaking faith with the people who are willing to serve.

“I have this notion, that if you can do a job, the only qualification to get that job ought to be the ability to do the job,” he added. “Colour or race or ethnicity or gender or who you love, or what your sexual identity is ought to be irrelevant. Who cares?”

Bureaucratic red tape is currently keeping a de factor ban on trans people in the military in place.

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