Nancy Pelosi Calls Out “Cruel” Transgender Military Ban

Speaking at a screening of the documentary ‘TransMilitary’, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi took aim President Trump, calling his ban on trans people serving in the military an “act of cruelty,” reports the Thomas Reuters Foundation.

“These people are going to be relics in the dustbin of history, they just don’t know it,” Pelosi said of those who don’t support trans rights.

“To them it’s inconceivable, to us it is inevitable. So we have to shorten the distance between the inconceivable to some and the inevitable to us.”

She also took time to thank US Army Captain Jennifer Peace, who was a subject of the documentary and was at the screening, for “shortening that distance.”

Last month the US appeals court lifted a final injunction on the ban, clearing the way for Trump’s administration to expel trans servicemen and women from the military.

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