I don't need to call out specific articles, but, if you read something about a "waiver" possibility in the Trump DOD trans ban, you need to read Law Dork, where I explain that the alleged "exception" is no such thing.
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Trans people are not just disproportionately represented in the military, we are *particularly* disproportionately represented in seniority level staff. This is costing the government a fortune to even try to implement simply because they hate trans people and want us out of public life.
I cannot find the exact statistic but it was an *absurdly* high number of staff in authority positions to discharge all at once and the cost is astronomically high to replace all of them.
Can't sue as a service member over anything the Gov does to you.
You sign away that right when you enlist. It would take a change in not only the UCMJ but Congress would have to pass a law to revise the legal code to allow it.
There are many reasons this will never happen sadly.
Sorry Jack I did not see you were a marine until I read down. You already knew what I mentioned above.
Your life path makes you a bad ass in ways few will understand.
Keep fighting, the Navy here has your back.
So they seemed to have stopped the blatantly bigoted ‘trans people are dishonest because they lie about themselves’. It’s still implied in that somehow they are suddenly not fit for service, even if they’ve served wonderfully.
Recruitment has been falling for decades and most Americans are unfit to serve and they’re going to kick out qualified people? Call me cynical but is there anything in Project 2025 about reenacting the draft?
Let's not forget that many of those government programs focused on childhood nutrition and physical fitness had their roots in reacting to the majority of WWI draftees being unfit for enlistment under normal circumstances because the average American was highly malnourished in 1916.
You have to be pretty insecure in your gender to be so hung up about it. They hate on trans so hard because they don’t feel they have enough support to publicly hate the entire rainbow community.
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Exactly. How does one define "36 consecutive months of stability in the service member’s sex without clinically significant distress" or "compelling government interest in retaining the service member that directly supports warfighting capabilities" when one's livelihood is constantly under threat?
This is Don't Ask Don't Tell all over again.
Except this time they have medical records on everyone.
People who serve and know that at any moment they could be kicked out or potentially murdered by their fellow service members.
That is what actual patriotism looks like.
administrative under honorable conditions unless your service does not characterize "honorable" is what its gonna be. you get all benefits from what ive read
I am a transman, and I served in the Marines as a female for 8 years and my last year as a male. I was already processing out for back and neck injuries that prevented me from maintaining the physical fitness standards. I hate that my retirement certificate is signed by the 🍊idiot, but I feel …
2 blessed that I didn’t have to serve under his thumb for long. It was bad enough when he tried to fire us with a tweet the first time around. And we knew we were in for a pile of 💩 when our beloved Gen Mattis resigned from SecDef. There were folks who refused to out themselves during his first …
3 term because they feared that he would pull the rug out from under them- and they were right. We always thought our benefits were safe because “it would take an act of congress” to change anything for the worse. Seems we were wrong on that point. I have trans vet friends with trans dependents …
4 who were disenrolled from tricare because of the EO. Despite it not being a legal policy- triwest decided to enforce it on their own. To be clear, the vet has coverage- but their child was disenrolled and the EO was the reason given by TriWest. We all expect to lose our hormones, and at this …
5 point probably lose other benefits as well. The layoffs already dismissed some key folks who process adaptive housing grants and other programs for severely disabled vets. I hope when this nightmare is over these SM’s have a chance to finish their contracts or get a shot at retirement. I can’t…
6 explain how devastating it will be to have served for however many years and despite doing nothing wrong- have your contract terminated without reaching the deadline of service years for retirement pay. And because it’s so immediate they can’t even properly out-process or start disability claims.
Well, I'm exempt from the draft now. I mean, I aged out of it and my body would have been a whole "fuck you" to the concept of that structure, but i guess I can't be considered even if they decide to draft us "old fuckers" over the age of 34.
My birthday certificate says female.
The qualifications for female is very loosely defined.
But the qualifications does not include an inspection of the internal organs, which it shouldn't.
I'm intersex, and have been since birth.
My birth certificate is wrong, not my brain.
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You sign away that right when you enlist. It would take a change in not only the UCMJ but Congress would have to pass a law to revise the legal code to allow it.
There are many reasons this will never happen sadly.
Your life path makes you a bad ass in ways few will understand.
Keep fighting, the Navy here has your back.
🤢
Except this time they have medical records on everyone.
People who serve and know that at any moment they could be kicked out or potentially murdered by their fellow service members.
That is what actual patriotism looks like.
Honorable?
General?
Conditions other than honorable?
Administrative?
Dishonorable?
The type of discharge can greatly affect veteran benefits eligibility.
This is going to be my supervillain origin story, I suspect.
It’s in Sec. 4. I linked to the document in the report.
The qualifications for female is very loosely defined.
But the qualifications does not include an inspection of the internal organs, which it shouldn't.
I'm intersex, and have been since birth.
My birth certificate is wrong, not my brain.