Gender-diverse Australian sailors barred from US submarines despite Aukus deal, documents reveal

Defence briefing released under freedom of information laws shows ADF beholden to US directives when in training

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Aukus is effectively forcing the Australian navy to comply with a US ban on transgender people in the military with gender-diverse navy recruits prevented from starting a career in nuclear submarines because they would not be safe training on US boats.

Internal Australian defence force documents show transgender and non-binary sailors and officers are explicitly banned from Australia’s nuclear submarine training program because of US policies..