--- title: Donald Trump Transgender Military Ban Slammed by GLAAD description: GLAAD condemned Trump's announcement that transgender people would be prohibited from serving in the military, calling it a "direct attack" canonical: https://time.com/4874449/donald-trump-transgender-military-ban-glaad/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-26T14:53:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:44:22.143Z article:section: Politics og:title: 'Trump Has Never Been a Friend.' GLAAD Slams Transgender Military Ban og:description: "Today further exposed President Trump’s overall goal to erase LGBTQ Americans" og:url: https://time.com/4874449/donald-trump-transgender-military-ban-glaad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97ee62b0f3ead06a/6988d73afb4eacde6989311e/trump-transgender-military.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Departs White House For West Virginia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Trump Has Never Been a Friend.' GLAAD Slams Transgender Military Ban twitter:description: "Today further exposed President Trump’s overall goal to erase LGBTQ Americans" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97ee62b0f3ead06a/6988d73afb4eacde6989311e/trump-transgender-military.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Trump Has Never Been a Friend.' GLAAD Slams Transgender Military Ban  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Jul 26, 2017 2:53 PM UTC  President Donald Trump walks to Marine One while departing from the White House in Washington, on July 24, 2017. President Donald Trump walks to Marine One while departing from the White House in Washington, on July 24, 2017.Mark Wilson—Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Jul 26, 2017 2:53 PM UTC GLAAD, a media monitoring organization dedicated to promoting acceptance for the LGBTQ community, strongly condemned [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4874311/donald-trump-transgender-military/)‘s announcement Wednesday that [transgender people would be prohibited](http://time.com/4874255/donald-trump-transgender-military-cant-serve/) from serving in the military, calling it a “direct attack” on transgender Americans. “His administration will stop at nothing to implement its anti-LGBTQ ideology within our government – even if it means denying some of our bravest Americans the right to serve and protect our nation,” Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and CEO of GLAAD, [said in a statement.](https://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-statement-president-trump-barring-transgender-soldiers-openly-serving-us-military) “Today further exposed President Trump’s overall goal to erase LGBTQ Americans from this nation. Trump has never been a friend to LGBTQ Americans, and this action couldn’t make that any more clear.” “Since President Trump’s inauguration, the administration has stopped at nothing to erase LGBTQ acceptance from the federal government,” the statement added. Trump said Wednesday morning that transgender people would not be allowed to serve in the military “in any capacity,” marking a reversal of a decision made under the Obama Administration in 2016 to [allow them](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/us/transgender-military.html?module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=U.S.&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=article) to serve openly. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4874449/donald-trump-transgender-military-ban-glaad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4874449/donald-trump-transgender-military-ban-glaad/"},"headline":"'Trump Has Never Been a Friend.' 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