Trump Orders All Trans Military to be Identified and Expelled
Why is Trump doing this? Payback to those who go to a building called church and put their knees on the ground and only god might know why. Christians are not but Im sure religions turn them on. He got their vote and he promised Trans Out. They also asked for Gays and Lesbians Bi. Too much to take-up after 2 months presidency but is in the agenda to have the law reversed. He only keep promises that give him a profit. Read it on his book. Being President is not just a profit but it makes you a billionaire. And to be fair of the all alive presidents who are not millionaires? If we curtail how much money they can accrue you will get people going for the job not to get rich but to do a job. This won't happen being that the nation has a love affair with people with money, no matter how they got it. But it has to be told, who knows?
I believe in miracles even though I'm a bible student who does not believe in religions. What I thin k Often I think of in what condition is Trumps's going to leave this nation? He already said they owe him 4 years, What does that mean? You know what it means.
Adam Gonzalez, Writer
This has been updated to include a statement from GLAD Law. By THEM
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is officially working to identify and expel all transgender people from the nation’s military, claiming that gender dysphoria is necessarily disqualifying, per a memo filed in federal court this week.
The memo was filed in court on Wednesday as a result of a lawsuit from several trans servicemembers, in challenge to President Trump’s January executive order demanding such a ban be implemented. (It’s not clear exactly when the memo was issued internally, although it specifically references another memo by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued February 7, and requests monthly updates beginning exactly one month from Wednesday, February 26.) In it, DoD official Darin Selnick wrote, “members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria [are] incompatible with military service.”
Any person diagnosed as gender dysphoric is to be identified for “separation” from military service in the coming weeks, per the memo. If a person has ever pursued medical transition, specifically “cross-sex hormone therapy or sex reassignment or genital reconstruction surgery,” they are disqualified from service under the new policy; the memo also instructs officials to cancel all planned or scheduled “surgical procedures associated with facilitating sex reassignment for Service members,” and declares that no DoD funds may be used to pay for gender-affirming medical care. (Trans service members who have already received a prescription for hormone therapy may continue receiving medication “if recommended by a DoD health care provider (HCP) in order to prevent further complications,” Selnick wrote.)
But the memo’s language also includes those who “exhibit symptoms consistent with” dysphoria, which could increase the policy’s scope well beyond those who publicly identify as trans, take steps to transition, or who simply receive a dysphoria diagnosis. If a person is simply perceived as trans, based on an observer’s assessment of their “symptoms” and behavior, they could be targeted for expulsion under the DoD ban.
“The memo directs the military to identify anyone that is believed to be transgender. That could certainly sweep in people who are not transgender,” said Jennifer Levi, Senior Director of Transgender and Queer Rights at GLAD Law and one of the attorneys arguing the case, in an emailed statement to Them on Thursday. “It would subject those people to the initiation of separation proceedings unless they can prove they are not transgender.”
Among the memo’s other stipulations is an official pronoun policy demanding that service members only use pronouns and honorifics (like “sir” and “ma’am”) that refer to a person’s assigned sex.
“Service by these individuals is not in the best interests of the Military Services and is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security,” the memo claims, without elaboration.
Selnick’s memo technically lays out a “waiver” process for trans people who can demonstrate a “compelling Government interest” for keeping their positions. But that process is perhaps more traumatic than the service ban itself. In order to successfully waive the new dysphoria ban, a person must prove they have completed “36 consecutive months of stability in the Service member's sex” while enlisted, that they have “never attempted to transition” away from their assigned sex, and that they are “willing and able to adhere to all applicable standards, including the standards associated with the Service member's sex.”
By this standard, not even detransitioning would allow a trans person to obtain a waiver under the rules set forth; only those who have historically and satisfactorily repressed their gender identity and expression, and would agree to continue doing so indefinitely, may theoretically be allowed to stay on. As independent journalist Chris Geidner noted on Wednesday evening, the policy is more chilling than the DoD’s long-defunct “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” rule: “Ultimately, this is a ‘don’t live honestly, don’t tell, or we will pursue’ policy,” Geidner wrote.
The memo instructs all departments to begin working on implementing the dysphoria ban immediately; initial progress reports are due March 26, and Selnick instructed departments to fully implement the ban by June 25. As part of that process, the memo claims that affected service members who “voluntarily separate” from the military within 30 days will be allowed to keep pay bonuses and will be offered “separation pay” at double the DoD’s usual rate. If a person does not quit “voluntarily,” they are entitled to arbitration, but the DoD “may recoup any bonuses received prior to the date of this memorandum.” Affected service members may be placed on administrative leave with pay.
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“As today’s decision makes clear, the president does not have the power to unilaterally condition federal funding by requiring discrimination. To the contrary, our laws and Constitution forbid it,” said Lambda Legal's Omar Gonzalez-Pagan.
The case in which Selnick’s memo was filed is being argued in court by lawyers for the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLAD Law. During a hearing last week, district judge Ana Reyes called Trump’s proposed ban “unadulterated animus,” saying that if the U.S. military is negatively impacted by a trans person’s pronouns, then the military itself is “incompetent.”
In an emailed statement Thursday morning, NCLR legal director Shannon Minter called the DoD ban “unprecedented” in both scope and severity.
“This is a complete purge of all transgender individuals from military service,” Minter wrote.
“This is a complete purge of all transgender individuals from military service,” Minter wrote.
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