title: Trump transgender decision 'shocking and ignorant': advocate
text: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to ban transgender individuals from the U.S. military amounts to a “shocking and ignorant attack on our military and on transgender troops,” a leading advocate said on Wednesday. “The President is creating a worse version of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ As we know from the sad history of that discredited policy, discrimination harms military readiness,” said Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center. 