“ [Trump] is saying that being transgender is incompatible with military service. It's the most basic kind of unprincipled and discriminatory policy that exists,” says Jennifer Levi, a senior director at GLAD Law. “It has no basis other than hostility towards a group.”

Rep. Scott Peters doubled down on his commitment to the military community, supporting fellow Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs' Ensuring Military Readiness Not Discrimination Act, which proposes to amend the United States Code to prohibit discrimination in the U.

As a veteran, I’m especially concerned about the policies and practices in the armed forces because our military has long benefited from transgender patriots in helping to achieve mission critical goals,

For two decades, I wore the uniform of an American soldier, deployed to Afghanistan three times, and led troops in combat. I didn’t do it for politics, I did it because I believed in the values the military claims to uphold: service,