General Retired Lloyd Austin, nominated by the United States President-in-Office, Joe Biden, to lead the Department of Defense, said this March that he would revoke the Donald Trump administration’s decision to ban transgender people from firefighting.
“Created by God, Senator, as I say in my initial discourse, that if you are apt and are qualified to serve and can maintain the estates, you must be allowed to serve (in the Armored Forces)”, Austin said in response to a question formulated by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand during her confirmation hearing.
“And you can hope to support it at all times,” Austin asked, declaring before the Camera Alta Armored Services Committee.
This is the way Austin, who has been confirmed to be the first secretary of defense of the African American defense, pronounced himself over the media announced by Trump in July 2017, when informed of his intention to ban all transgender people from serving in the Ejército.
In my opinion, the Defense Charter presents a standard that states that persons with “a history of gender disqualification” should be disqualified from military service except for limited circumcisions, but do not recommend the expulsion of members of the Armed Forces. a sex change operation.
During the session, Austin shared the paper of the EE.UU tropes. of the world and opinion that these should center their efforts in Asia, consider that China will be the “most significant challenge” and description Iran as “a destabilizing force”.
On Afghanistan, indicating that the gustaria is coming to an end with a negotiated agreement: “I believe we can do everything possible to ensure that this is the case”, underlined.
“We believe that this conflict should be resolved, saben, at its end. We will demand that it be agreed, and, as the President elect, will believe, believe that we will have an Afghanistan in the future that does not support an EE.UU grant. . “, subrayó.
In anticipation of the death of the White House, Trump recorded this March in a speech grabbed in video that is “the first president in decades that has not started new wars.”
During his tenure, Trump’s defense policy was marked by a trope of troop of operational areas such as Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan.
“I’m especially sorry to be the first president in decades that he has not started new wars,” he said in his speech captured on video.