--- title: Transgender Military Ban: Senators Move to Block Ban description: Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Susan Collins introduced a proposal to stop Trump's plan to ban transgender people from military service canonical: https://time.com/4936786/transgender-military-ban-amendment-susan-collins-kirsten-gillibrand/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-11T23:14:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:07.653Z article:section: Politics og:title: Democrat and Republican Senators Move to Stop Trump's Transgender Military Ban og:description: "Gender identity should have nothing to do with it" og:url: https://time.com/4936786/transgender-military-ban-amendment-susan-collins-kirsten-gillibrand/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c8a08f7580c8a2c/6988dd4c86f68e49c26e65dd/gillibrand-collins-transgender-amendment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4680 og:image:height: 2633 og:image:alt: Senators Hold Briefing To Propose An Independent Military Justice System og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Democrat and Republican Senators Move to Stop Trump's Transgender Military Ban twitter:description: "Gender identity should have nothing to do with it" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c8a08f7580c8a2c/6988dd4c86f68e49c26e65dd/gillibrand-collins-transgender-amendment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Democrat and Republican Senators Move to Stop Trump's Transgender Military Ban > Sponsored content. 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Demonstrators have flocked to a military recruiting station in New York City to protest President Donald Trump's abrupt ban on transgender troops in the military._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Sep 11, 2017 11:14 PM UTC  New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand speaks while Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) listens during a news conference on changing the military justice system, on Dec. 2, 2014 in Washington, D.C. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand speaks while Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) listens during a news conference on changing the military justice system, on Dec. 2, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Mark Wilson/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Sep 11, 2017 11:14 PM UTC New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, introduced a bipartisan amendment to protect transgender service members from President Trump’s plan to [ban them from the military](http://time.com/4916871/donald-trump-transgender-military-ban/). The amendment introduced Monday would prohibit the Department of Defense from dismissing current transgender service members “solely on the basis of the member’s gender identity,” Senators said in a statment. “Any individual who wants to join our military and meets the standards should be allowed to serve, period. Gender identity should have nothing to do with it,” Gillibrand, a Democrat, said in a statement. “If individuals are willing to put on the uniform of our country, be deployed in war zones, and risk their lives for our freedoms, then we should be expressing our gratitude to them, not trying to exclude them from military service,” said Collins, a Republican. td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;} Last month, Trump [formally ordered](http://time.com/4916871/donald-trump-transgender-military-ban/) a reversal of a 2016 order that had allowed transgender people to serve openly in the military, but it is not clear how that will affect the [estimated 1,320 to 6,630 transgender service members](http://time.com/4874380/donald-trump-military-transgender-how-many/) currently in the active duty military. [Secretary of Defense James Mattis](http://time.com/4921270/james-mattis-transgender-ban-donald-trump/) has said transgender service members will be allowed to stay in the military temporarily while he figures out how to implement Trump’s ban. ## Transcript [ INAUDIBLE ] We are not from [ INAUDIBLE ]. [ APPLAUSE ] [ INAUDIBLE ] The fact that Donald Trump, who knows this recruiting station all too well, would not even look at it Or acknowledge it on his way to Studio 54, when other people were willing to make that sacrifice. What he does today is outrageous, disgusting, and dishonors the armed forces of the United States of America. Transgender rights are human rights. Yeah. [ APPLAUSE ] High gender rights are supervised. Now we already know what this president thinks of immigrants and Mexicans and muslims and the poor and the sick and now we know what he thinks of our transgender people. 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