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Pentagon orders removal of up to 1,000 transgender troops from military
The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify, under a new directive issued Thursday. Buoyed by Tuesday's Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a ban on transgender individuals in the military, the Defence Department will then begin going through medical records to identify others who haven't come forward. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who issued the latest memo, made his views clear after the court's decision. "No More Trans @ DoD," Hegseth wrote in a post on X. Earlier in the day, before the court acted, Hegseth was more blunt, telling a conference that his department is leaving wokeness and weakness behind. "No more pronouns," he told a special operations forces conference in Tampa. Department officials have said it's difficult to determine exactly how many transgender service members there are, but medical records will show th
Trump urges US Supreme Court to reinstate transgender military service ban
The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed. The high court filing follows a brief order from a federal appeals court that kept in place a court order blocking the policy nationwide. President Donald Trump signed an executive order a week into his term that claims the sexual identity of transgender service members conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honourable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one's personal life and is harmful to military readiness. In response, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a policy that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service. But in March, US District Court Judge Benjamin Settle in Tacoma, Washington, ruled for several long-serving transgender military members who say the ban is insulting and discriminatory, and that their firing would cause lasting damage to their careers and ...
Federal judge halts Trump admin's ban on transgender military service
A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender people from military service on Tuesday U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., ruled that Trump's order to exclude transgender troops from military service likely violates their constitutional rights. She delayed her order by three days to give the administration time to appeal. The judge issued a preliminary injunction requested by attorneys for six transgender people who are active-duty service members and two others seeking to join the military. On January 27, Trump signed an executive order that claims the sexual identity of transgender service members "conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one's personal life and is harmful to military readiness. In response to the order, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a policy that presumptively disqualifies people with gender dysphoria from military service. Gender dysphoria is
Transgender troops being identified, to be removed under Pentagon orders
The military services have 30 days to figure out how they will seek out and identify transgender service members to remove them from the force a daunting task that may end up relying on troops self-reporting or tattling on their colleagues. A memo sent to Defense Department leaders on Thursday after the Pentagon filed it late Wednesday as part of a response to a lawsuit orders the services to set up procedures to identify troops diagnosed with or being treated for gender dysphoria by March 26. They will then have 30 days to begin removing those troops from service. The order expands on the executive order signed by President Donald Trump during his early days in office setting out steps toward banning transgender individuals from serving in the military. The directive has been challenged in court. Initial but incomplete counts of transgender troops easily identifiable through medical records is in the hundreds, US officials said. That's a tiny fraction of the 2.1 million troops .
Pentagon says transgender troops must meet warfighting need to serve
The Pentagon revealed the specifics of its new transgender troop policy in a court filing Wednesday that says any service member or recruit who has been diagnosed with or treated for gender dysphoria is disqualified from serving unless they can prove they meet a specific warfighting need and adhere to severe restrictions on their day-to-day behavior. The policy memo was included in the latest court filing in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order against transgender military service, one of many hot-button issues the president made a priority to address on his first days in office. Like the executive order, the policy filed Wednesday suggests that the lethality and integrity of the military is inconsistent with what transgender personnel go through as they transition to the gender they identify with, and issues an edict that gender is immutable, unchanging during a person's life." The policy provides two exceptions if transgender personnel who seek to enlis
Transgender ban: US Army halts recruitment, ends gender-affirming care
The decision reverses the policies established under the Biden administration, which had allowed transgender individuals to serve in the military and access medical care
Trump 2.0 defense policy: Removing transgender troops, space-based defence
One of the controversial parts of Trump's executive order is aimed at revisiting the rules for transgender individuals in the US military. It has sparked widespread debate over inclusivity
Trump signs order that likely sets in motion a ban on transgender troops
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon's policy on transgender troops, likely setting in motion a future ban on their military service. He also ordered troops to be reinstated who had been booted for refusing COVID-19 vaccines, outlined new rollbacks in diversity programs and provided for the deployment of a space-based missile defense shield for the US just after Hegseth began his first day on the job. Both Trump and Hegseth had described parts of the anticipated orders throughout the day, but the exact language did not drop until late Monday evening. Transgender order A transgender ban had been widely expected, and the order Trump signed largely sets in motion a future ban but directs Hegseth to come up with how that would be implemented in policy. In his order, Trump claimed that service by troops who identify as a gender other than their biological one conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an
Donald Trump's team denies any plan to ban transgender military personnel
Trump's incoming press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the allegations, describing them as speculative and unfounded
Trump to 'sign order' removing transgender troops; spokeswoman denies plan
If US President-elect Donald Trump goes ahead with his plan, the decision will affect 15,000 transgender individuals actively serving in the US armed forces
US President Biden reverses Trump ban on transgender people in military
Biden's order says that gender identity should not be a bar to military service
US military to allow transgender recruits from Jan 1 as court blocks ban
Four lawsuits were filed against the ban, and so far, judges in three of them have said the ban cannot take effect
Transgender troops can continue to serve in US military till 2018: Pentagon
Obama-era policy allowing transgender personnel to serve and receive medical treatment will remain in place for now
