Sebastian Gorka, who serves as deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, unequivocally defended Trump’s controversial ban on transgenders serving in the United States arms forces in a recent radio interview that’s making waves.

Speaking with BBC Radio 4 last week, Gorka explained that Trump’s decision is the correct one because the purpose of a standing military force is not to be a “microcosm of civilian society.”

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The military “is there to kill people and blow stuff up. They’re not there to be socially-engineered” –@SebGorka on transgender military ban pic.twitter.com/sQgTkZb72f — BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) July 28, 2017

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