We Knew This Was Bad, Just Not How Bad.

We knew when the Supreme Court lifted the ban on protecting trans service members was not good news for us, we are starting to lean just how bad.

What the Supreme Court’s Transgender Ban Really Means

Air Force & Space Magazine

May 7, 2025

By David Roza

The Supreme Court’s May 6 decision to grant the Trump administration’s request to block a lower court’s injunction means the Defense Department can resume separating transgender service members under a directive issued in February.

In a May 8 memo, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the military services to reinstate policies to place transgender troops on administrative leave, recall or cancel deployments, cancel transition-related medical care, and require transgender troops to adhere to the dress, grooming, and physical fitness standards of their sex at birth. DOD can also reinstate a hold on transgender recruits shipping to basic military training.

Voluntary separations for Active-Duty transgender service members will be allowed until June 6, and for Reserve members until July 7. After that, the memo directs services to “initiate involuntary separation processes.”

Yet two lawsuits could still stand in the way. 

Tell me what will happen if the courts find in favor of the trans service members... will they be reinstated? If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. 

Transgender advocates said removing the injunction allows the administration to act before the legality of its policy is determined. 

“The whole purpose of a preliminary injunction is to preserve the status quo while the case proceeds,” said Shannon Minter, the legal director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights and one of the lead attorneys representing transgender troops and recruits in a similar case in Washington D.C. “The court just turned that upside down.”

I don't believe that the Trump administration will reinstate any trans military personnel!

According to NPR News...

A ruling from the Supreme Court last week allowed the Trump administration to enforce its ban on transgender military service members, while legal challenges to the policy move forward.

The U.S. military is currently offering voluntary separation to trans troops — after which it will initiate an involuntary separation process.

Col. Bree Fram, an openly transgender member of the U.S. Space Force, is also one of the highest-ranking transgender service members in the armed forces.

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Bree Fram: Well, I was devastated and heartbroken by the decision because it doesn't take into account the real harm that is occurring right now, not just to individual transgender service members, but also to this nation and to our national defense now and far into the future. Because lives are being upended and even if the court cases continue to play out, we are going to lose thousands of highly trained, highly capable skilled individuals that are serving their nation and doing everything that is being asked of them right now here at home and deployed all around the world.

The article ends with,

Fram: This has been an absolute roller-coaster and the emotional toll has been intense. But through it all, we have absolutely accomplished the mission. And that's what makes me so proud of transgender service members.

For the whole trans community it is a roller coaster but for them it must be especially hard.