These trans service members are being forced out of the military...

[Jessica_Rose]

These trans service members are being forced out of the military due to Trump's ban

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/these-trans-service-members-are-being-forced-out-of-the-military-due-to-trump-s-ban/ar-AA1H2zun?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=569e84c60552445bdd65316fcebfd485&ei=22

Story by Jo Yurcaba (19 June 2025)

Earlier this month, the Defense Department told transgender service members that they had to choose whether they would voluntarily or involuntarily separate from the military.

"Nobody feels like this is voluntary," said Emily Shilling, a commander in the Navy and the president of SPARTA, a nonprofit group that advocates for trans service members. "This is coercion. This is under duress."

... the Defense Department issued guidance requiring active duty service members to voluntarily self-identify as having been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, which is the distress that results from a misalignment between one's birth sex and gender identity, by June 6 and reserve service members to self-identify by July 7.

After that, the guidance said, the military will find trans service members who didn't self-identify through medical readiness programs and begin involuntarily separating them.

However, many details are still unknown, such as what benefits trans service members will be able to access and whether they will all receive honorable discharges... Just over 4,000 transgender people currently serve in the military, according to Defense Department data, and the department said last month that about 1,000 trans service members have begun the separation process from the military after voluntarily identifying themselves.

"Characterization of service will be honorable except where the Service member's record otherwise warrants a lower characterization," a U.S. Defense official said in a statement to NBC News. "Military Services will follow normal processes for administrative separation."

[Lori Dee]

From the VA LGBTQ+ Healthcare web page:
https://www.patientcare.va.gov/lgbt/


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[Sephirah]

The saddest thing about all this is that the people this crime against Humanity is vilifying are the people willing to give their lives to allow him to vilify them. I know Trump himself was a coward when it came to military service, and made excuses that got him out of it, because of course he did... and has no respect for the whole point of it, or what these people are doing. He is only where he is because of the dedication of the people he's deciding to hate on.

I never thought it was possible to have so little respect for a person.