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[Headlines] (HL-사건/사고/법률) Trump Bans Transgender People from US Military
최고관리자  |  17-07-30 12:36

President Donald Trump is banning transgender people from serving in the United States military. The president made the announcement Wednesday on Twitter. He wrote that he discussed the issue with generals and military experts. He said he then decided that the government, in his words, “will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.” “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail,” he wrote.
* ban = 금(지)하다/ transgender = 성전환의, 트랜스젠더의/ serve = (어떤 사람・조직・국가 등을 위해) 일[봉사]하다, 근무[복무]하다/ general = 장군/ capacity = (공식적인) 지위[역할]/ decisive = 결단력[과단성] 있는; 결정적인/ overwhelming = 압도적인/ be burdened with ~ = ~의 부담을 지다/ disruption = 혼란; 붕괴; 분열; 중단, 두절/ entail = 수반하다

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis is a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department. He declined to say whether transgender people already serving in the military would be removed. He also declined to say whether Trump’s tweets mean a change in policy. Davis told the Associated Press, “Call the White House.” The AP reported that about 250 military service members are in the process of changing gender. Trump’s announcement did not say what would happen to these service members. The U.S. Department of Defense has not released the number of transgender people currently serving in the military. But a RAND Corporation study says that between 1,300 to nearly 7,000 transgender people are currently active in the services. Transgender people have been able to serve openly in the military since last year. That was when former Defense Secretary Ash Carter ended the ban. The new policy was to go into effect fully on July 1. However, in June Defense Secretary James Mattis said the department would delay Carter's order in order to examine its possible effect. Matt Thorn is head of OutServe-SLDN, an organization representing the LGBT population in the military. He said thousands of transgender people have served in the U.S. military without any issues. Victoria Rodriguez-Roldan, director of the Trans/Gender Non-Conforming Justice Project, said "Trump’s decision is harming lives for the sake of political gains.”
* spokesman = 대변인/ decline = 거절하다, 사양하다; 줄어들다/ in the process of ~ = ~하는 중이다, ~하는 과정이다/ go into effect = 발효하다, 실시되다, 효력이 발생되다/ harm = 해를 끼치다, 손상시키다/ for the sake of ~ = ~을 (얻기, 지키기) 위해서, ~ 때문에/ political gain = 정치적 이득