Summary
Donald Trump plans to ban transgender individuals from military service shortly after his inauguration, reversing President Biden’s 2021 policy and expelling about 15,000 serving trans troops.
Critics, including advocacy groups and military experts, warn this move will exacerbate recruitment and retention challenges, harm unit cohesion, and create skill gaps amid existing shortfalls.
The order aligns with Trump’s broader anti-trans agenda, which includes banning gender-affirming care and restricting trans rights nationwide.
Legal challenges are anticipated as the military faces administrative and operational disruptions.
These people care way too much about others people’s genitalia.
Yea, it’s a pretty weird obsession
This motherfucker wouldn’t know what it was to serve your country.
Private Bone Spurs is the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military for a second time now.
And I guarantee you if you asked a lot of the older MAGA what they thought of Bill Clinton, “draft dodger” would come up eventually.
I got out in 2017 partially because I’m trans and Trump was coming into the oval office. He had made it clear that trans people would not be welcome in his military, and I wasn’t going to risk being discharged because of President Bone Spurs.
The military held him off last time, but I’m not as hopeful this time. And I just wanted to throw out there: I personally believe the GOP is going to use federal funding to essentially strip LGBTQ+ people of their rights and healthcare access. It’s going to be the Minimum Federal Drinking Age Act of 1984 again, where the fed is gonna say, “Sure, you can offer gender affirming care in your state… If you do, you won’t have access to XYZ federal funding anymore.”
And the states will let it happen.
I just don’t get it. Trans people can pull a trigger as well as anyone else. This is just hatred.
This is just hatred
Yes, this is indeed America.
Every 2 years since Reagan, we get a vote for either Greed(D), or Greed+Hatred®.
Greed+Hatred won this cycle. Not getting hatred as a result would be the confusing thing. A welcome confusing thing, but confusing nonetheless.
I am curious when he is going to start placing them in concentration camps along with all the other people that have spoken out against the glorious leader.
Looking forward to the “support our troops” crowd disavowing Trump for this
Hey! Let’s send over 10k of the people we trained how to use weapons professionally home in a clearly discriminatory manner instead of letting them keep their jobs. That will do wonders for political stability.
Goodbye naval intelligence
Don’t forget that he is basically a Nazi
He needs to make them seem criminal and inhuman so he can use them as a distraction and scapegoat later, so he can get his fan base to attack them
Hate sells and America is buying
This is less to do with the perceived quality of trans troops and more to do with making sure that the the current target of the boot doesn’t know how to fight back.
Probably because the plan is to use the military to deport Trans people after he sates his thirst for deporting POC.
does he know he can’t deport anyone who wasn’t ported? lol
He wants to end birthright citizenship by pushing an ultraconservative interpretation of the 14th amendment through that basically says it only applied to people who were already born when it was ratified, so citizens who were born here can just be rendered stateless and thrown into camps.
It’s gonna be just like the “good” old days, where bigotry is both accepted and the norm.
I’m just waiting for them to change hate crime to act of morality, claiming it’s just upholding good Christian values.I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. 🤮
Hopefully the discharge is honorable and their service helps them get a good civilian job where they are happy and accepted
We’ll be lucky if they get a dishonorable discharge, because the way the GOP stands now… a firing squad isn’t out of the question.
I am disgusted by the world.
Fuck you Mace, Fuck you Elon, and FUCK YOU everyone who voted for Trump and signing my death warrant.
