This is a little weird.
This is, by my read, an implementation of a Feb. 7 order from Def Sec Hegseth, which I reported on Monday when they made it public.
If anything, this is notable because it took the Army a week to do something "immediately."
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-defense-sec-orders-immediate
This is, by my read, an implementation of a Feb. 7 order from Def Sec Hegseth, which I reported on Monday when they made it public.
If anything, this is notable because it took the Army a week to do something "immediately."
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-defense-sec-orders-immediate
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Casey Parks
The US Army account on X says it is no longer allowing trans people to join. On Tuesday, a judge will hear a case brought by multiple trans service members challenging a Trump EO that seeks to remove trans people from the military.
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Caitlin Jenner have a take on this?
It's not as easy to mass fire trans people with animus as the only criteria, as they will likely find out next week.
Besides being hateful, this is just so incredibly stupid.
That almost everyone took "we aren't booting currently serving trans people" to also mean "trans people can still join", despite the guidance also explicitly saying the latter wasn't the case, is....something
The Army is big with lots of moving parts.
I wrote about that hearing here: