#TBT: Obama Repeals "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

 

     At the height of right-wing hatred, in the 1990s, the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was passed to statiate those who sought to ban gay people from serving in the military. It stated that gay people could not be fired from their military positions if they kept the fact that they were gay a secret.

     The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 22nd, 2010, and implemented the following year, allowed openly gay, bisexual, and lesbian people to serve in the military. Although Obama signed an executive order allowing transgender people to serve in 2016, it was repealed by the Trump administration via another executive order, and the status of transgender military service remains in legal limbo.