(29 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Akron, Ohio – 29 January 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolas Talbott, Second Lieutenant, Army:
“I am Second Lieutenant Nicolas Talbot. I have been in the United States Army since March of 2024, and this is something that I have always wanted to do. Being in the Army has been a lifelong dream of mine, but I have spent most of my adult life working toward due to various versions of a transgender military ban.”
US NETWORK POOL
Washington – 23 January 2025
2. Various of President Donald Trump signing executive orders in Oval Office
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Akron, Ohio – 29 January 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolas Talbott, Second Lieutenant, Army:
“When President Trump put out his first executive order this time around, I really anticipating that something like this would happen again. I’d been working with my legal team for a few months at this point. So, when the executive order came out this time, I just kind of said to myself, well, here we are, it’s happened. So, let’s go tackle this thing once again.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Akron, Ohio – 29 January 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolas Talbott, Second Lieutenant, Army:
“In my experience with my unit, with my platoons throughout my training, a non-issue. Nobody cares that I’m transgender in the military. We spend more time talking about my mustache than we do me being transgender, because it’s something about me that has no impact on my ability to perform and to serve my country.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 27 March 2008
5. STILL overhead of Pentagon
US NETWORK POOL
Washington – 27 January 2025
6. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arriving at Pentagon
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Akron, Ohio – 29 January 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolas Talbott, Second Lieutenant, Army:
“I think the wording this time around is very frustrating because the claims that are being made against transgender service people are not based in any factual anything in any sense of the imagination. It’s all fiction. We all come in and serve honorably with integrity, and we, excuse me, remain loyal to our country and to our fellow soldiers. Our being transgender has nothing to do with the character of our being. We all took the exact same oath and we all swore to uphold the Constitution and defend and protect the United States of America. And that’s what is important to remember about transgender service people, is we are just like any other member of the United States military. We want to serve our country. We want to protect this nation. And we deserve to do so with dignity and respect and be able to live our authentic lives in our personal lives.”
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STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump has launched his second bid to oust all transgender troops from the military, and once again it will be headed to the courts to sort it out.
Although the new order will affect only a tiny fraction of America’s 2.1 million service members, it has taken on oversized importance to Trump and his administration, who see transgender forces as a sign the military is “woke” or not focused on training and winning wars.
But it was instantly condemned by a wide array of activist groups as exceptionally egregious and ultimately harmful to military readiness.
Nicolas Talbott, who is a Second Lieutenant in the US Army says no one in his platoon cares that he’s transgender, and that it’s a nonissue.
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