Monday, March 03, 2025

Here We Go Again!

We are being purged... not our closets but from the military! Once again Trump is trying to wipe us off the face of the map. He hates us.


The U.S. will begin removing transgender troops from the military within 30 days unless they obtain a waiver on a case-by-case basis, the Pentagon said in a Wednesday memo.

The memo became public as part of a court filing in a case challenging President Trump's late January executive order that was aimed at barring military service by transgender personnel.

"Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military service," the memo read.

These troops may be "considered for a waiver on a case-by-case basis, provided there is a compelling government interest in retaining the service member that directly supports warfighting capabilities," it said.

To obtain such a waiver, troops must show that they have never attempted to transition, as well as demonstrate "36 consecutive months of stability in the service member's sex without clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning."
This is down right BS! This is nothing more then politically motivated hate!
Mr. Trump's controversial restrictions — which underwent changes in response to various court challenges — eventually came into force in April 2019 following a protracted legal battle that went all the way to the nation's top court.
There is a "Yes, but..." the ruling allow the policy to be implemented while legal challenges proceeded and the suit was dropped when President Biden took office. But now more court filings...
AP News
By  TARA COPP
January 28, 2025


Six transgender active duty service members and two former service members who seek re-enlistment on Tuesday filed the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that calls for revising policy on transgender troops and probably sets the stage for banning them in the armed forces.

Trump’s order, signed Monday, claims the sexual identity of transgender service members “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle” and is harmful to military readiness. It requires Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to issue a revised policy.

[...]

The six plaintiffs include a Sailor of the Year honoree, a Bronze Star recipient and several who were awarded meritorious service medals.

“I’ve spent more than half my life in the Army, including combat in Afghanistan,” said Army Sgt. 1st Class Kate Cole. “Removing qualified transgender soldiers like me means an exodus of experienced personnel.”
The case is still active and hearing in early March is scheduled.

The Palm Center which is a part of the University of California at Santa Barbara and they report in 2020 that...
Executive Summary
On June 30, 2016, the U.S. military began allowing transgender Americans to serve openly in uniform. Although all five service chiefs subsequently testified that inclusive policy was 
a success, on April 12, 2019, the Department of Defense implemented a ban prohibiting transgender individuals, with some exceptions, from serving in the military, citing the 
financial costs of inclusive service as well as a threat to readiness, cohesion, and lethality. More than a year and a half has passed since the ban’s implementation, but scholars have 
not yet assessed its impact on readiness. 

This scholarly study is the first to undertake such an assessment. We use five research strategies including surveys, interviews, demographic analysis, a scholarly literature 
review, and content analysis of media articles to analyze the impact of the ban. Our data indicate that the overall impact of the ban has been to harm readiness by compromising 
recruitment, reputation, retention, unit cohesion, morale, medical care, and good order and discipline.
  • Recruitment: The ban undermines recruitment by artificially shrinking a recruiting pool comprising an estimated 205,850 transgender Americans of recruiting age, by discouraging transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals from considering service, and by making military service less attractive to American youth.
  • Reputation: The ban harms the military’s reputation and its appeal to millions of qualified non-transgender Americans by casting the armed forces as unwelcoming and intolerant.
  • Retention: The ban harms retention, including in ways not captured in discharge figures, by stigmatizing and uniquely burdening transgender personnel, making them less likely to continue or extend their service.
  • Unit Cohesion: The ban harms unit cohesion by encouraging anti-transgender harassment and by undermining trust when troops conceal their identities.
  • Morale: The ban hurts the morale of transgender service members by establishing a separate standard that treats them differently, by stigmatizing them and their service as a mission threat, and by distracting them from their focus.
  • Medical Care: The ban thwarts access to medical care for transgender personnel by directly denying care and by making candid communication with providers a risk for discharge. Even grandfathered personnel have experienced slowdowns in medical care and artificial roadblocks to deployment, and must endure separate standards applied only to transgender personnel.
  • Good Order and Discipline: The ban creates confusion and uncertainty among commanders and subordinates, undermining leadership and commitment to clear rules and expectations.
[...]

Conclusion
Despite testimony by all five service chiefs that inclusive policy was successful, the Department of Defense on April 12, 2019, implemented a ban prohibiting transgender individuals, with some exceptions, from serving. The Pentagon cited a threat to readiness, unit cohesion, and lethality, and the financial costs of inclusive service, yet it offered little evidence linking transgender service to these outcomes, and scholars have not assessed the impact of the ban itself on readiness. This is the first scholarly study to undertake that assessment.

The transgender ban singles out members of one cohort, but not those of the dominant group, and targets them for differential treatment, restricted opportunity, and dignitary harms. Scholars, courts, psychologists, legal experts, and others have repeatedly recognized that singling out specific groups as unfit or as a threat to the greater good has an inherently stigmatizing effect and undermines the core values—widely shared across the country and within our military culture—of equal treatment, dignity, and respect for individuals of different backgrounds, an emphasis on ability over identity, and the application of a single standard to all individuals. The stigmatizing effects of discrimination are well documented, and are particularly harmful for transgender individuals. This would be a serious blow to the military in its own right even if it were the only harm the ban perpetrates on the institution. But as we have demonstrated above, the ban inflicts concrete harms on the military in numerous areas of readiness. This study has found that, contrary to claims by the president and the Pentagon that allowing transgender service would be disruptive and costly, the ban itself has harmed readiness. Our data indicate that its overall impact has been to undermine readiness by compromising recruitment, reputation, retention, unit cohesion, morale, medical care, and good order and discipline.

Policymakers who aim to advance military personnel policy that maximizes readiness benefits and minimizes overall costs would be well served by reconsidering the current transgender ban, weighing the costs and benefits of the policy, and noting our findings that the costs far outweigh the benefits.
This shoots down all the arguments that Trump's staff have made! But that doesn't matter, because this is not about truth or readiness or moral, this is plan and simple bigotry! It is based on the their hatred of us.

CBS News ends with,
After returning to office in January, Trump issued an executive order that again took aim at transgender military service, saying: "Expressing a false 'gender identity' divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service." 
Oh really? Well these countries allow trans servicemembers!

As of 2022, these countries allow transgender military personnel to serve openly. Some of these nations include:
  1. Argentina
  2. Australia
  3. Austria
  4. Belgium
  5. Bolivia
  6. Brazil
  7. Canada
  8. Chile
  9. Czechia
  10. Denmark
  11. Estonia
  12. Finland
  13. France
  14. Germany
  15. Greece
  16. Ireland
  17. Israel
  18. Japan
  19. Mexico
  20. Netherlands
  21. New Zealand
  22. Norway
  23. Spain
  24. Sweden
  25. Switzerland
  26. Ukraine
  27. United States
  28. Additionally, Cuba and Thailand reportedly allow transgender service in a limited capacity
The Liar-in-Chief once again stretches the truth! 

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