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President Trump has signed a new memorandum that bans most individuals suffering from gender dysphoria from US military service. The new directive adopts recommendations from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that "transgender persons who require or have undergone gender transition" cannot serve.

The greatest constitutional crisis of Trump's presidency is the overreach of the federal judiciary, manifested first in the various lower court orders attempting to stymie the President's orders on immigration, and now, most seriously, by judges attempting to bypass the President to run the military and the Department of Defense from the federal bench.

Federal judges do not have the power to run the military, but they will continue to do so unless the Executive Branch vigorously takes up the fight. Unfortunately, LGBT activists and Obama holdovers at Defense and Justice are about to give away core constitutional powers of the Presidency to the judiciary.

Secretary James Mattis has quietly squelched (at least temporarily) the Obama plan to enlist transgender recruits into the United States military services. However, the question remains whether Mattis plans to kill Obama’s plan or to eventually let it become Pentagon policy.

Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, has released a special report Department of Defense & Military Services Should Revoke Problematic Transgender Policy Directives and Instructions and denounced the efforts of Obama Administration holdovers in the Pentagon who continue to implement transgender directives and training programs, as if the presidential election never happened.

The election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States will give new hope to active-duty and retired military personnel and their families.  However, Mr. Trump’s job will be even tougher because the Obama Administration has undermined military core values and culture with unprecedented social experiments.

Hillary Clinton will complete the Obama agenda of the destruction of America’s Armed Forces by continuing and even accelerating the pace of the social experiments, willful blindness to internal and external threats and other destructive policies President Barack Obama has imposed upon America's military.

Congressional hearings without honest testimony from those military officers called to testify are useless. In Obama’s politicized Pentagon, and the environment of political correctness and gender politics in which it operates, it will take men and women of real courage, who are prepared to tell the truth about the danger of admitting into our military individuals with gender identity disorder, and, like the Admirals who revolted in 1948 and 1949, put their careers on the line.