Republican Dan Crenshaw clashes with CNN host over transgender ban on military service

Trump official clashes with CNN host over transgender military ban executive orderSource: CNN

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00:00who can meet those standards. I mean, aren't you arguing that the those people that if someone who

00:05is trans is in the military and they can meet the standards that they should be able to serve? I

00:08don't I don't know that why would you be making that decision and not a medical professional or

00:13someone who who makes those decisions about vision or whatever issues they they evaluate

00:17before deploying somebody. I'm saying by definition if you if you have transitioned

00:21into a different gender you are not meeting our medical standards. Right, but that's your opinion.

00:26You're creating no it's not an opinion that that is that is a pretty easy that's an easy

00:30to prove fact. It makes it much harder on our units to deploy period like full stop.

00:35But then how are there trans people serving in the military right now, sir?

00:39There's a difference between identifying like again look at you you could Katelyn you could

00:43show up to you know to your to your job the next day and say that your name is now you know Ken.

00:48That's different you can identify that way and and if and that was Trump's old policy by the way

00:52they would allow you to serve that way. But there's a very big difference between doing that

00:56and actually undergoing medical procedures that take you that take you out of service.

01:01And there's and yeah you call it medical leave but that's some pretty severe medical leave.

01:06So why would we allow that? And then you and to say that you're deployable to austere environments?

01:10No way. That's just not true. Okay but I've never I've never changed my mind on that.

01:15The executive order is banning all trans people period. It's not making a caveat that you're

01:20making there. I don't think we've seen the text of the of the order have we? I don't have the text.

01:26This is what is how it's been described to us by our sources. Are you telling us that it makes that

01:30distinction? I don't I don't have the text. If you're making me guess on what the text is I

01:34have a feeling it'll look a lot like the last administration. We don't know yet. Okay so you're

01:38in favor of this though regardless. Yes yeah my position on this has always been very clear.