this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.
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Creates SCOTUS delay!
1) Trump issues executive order
2) Someone points out illegality of order
3) what happens?
Is the order stopped in it's tracks, unimplemented, or does it go through fully in action and then gets challenged later in court?
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In light of SCOTUS giving Trump immunity for 'actions in office,' does Trump need to worry about *any* legalities in these orders?
Honest question.
It’s pure racism.
He doesn't care. In fact, he probably enjoys the fact that people are fighting him over this.
Why else would they appoint a TV personality with no relevant experience as Secretary of Defense?
The U.S. Armed Forces are cramping Putin's style, so they have to go.
I mean, I'm not saying it doesn't matter at all, but he's gonna do whatever he's gonna do until he's stopped.
Unfortunately, like Israel, these powerful fascist monsters are never stopped.
Constitution be damned with these treasonous ones.🫤🙁
Do they really think this will HELP somehow?
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/21963-transgender-ensuring-mental-health
The idea that something is legal or illegal is gone. Those who are not fascist are not understanding what has just happened.
The courts will stall honorable people while the terrible do their business.
He is as purely racist as it gets.
Even a shitty politician could build themselves a great career right now, just by performatively attempting to impeach him regularly.
So of course no one is.
I want to go crawl into a hole now.
“Recently, however, the Armed Forces have been afflicted with radical gender ideology to appease activists unconcerned with the requirements of military service like physical and mental health, selflessness, and unit cohesion”
Exactly! Feel free to send me a DM. I don’t wanna share anymore for now, but you’ve got the gist.
I guess it’s fair to say that there will still be trans cadets and midshipmen, just like there were LGBTQ people serving before DADT repeal, but the hostility…ugggh. 🫤
and appoints the most unfit and morally-compromised person he could find as SECDEF. Our adversaries salivate.
They will not stop with trans people. They will take this as far as possible, until we stop them.
I say this as a trans person.
My rights are toast, incinerated. But maybe we can stop them together.
Safety net to science is halted so trump can find things he personally deems worthwhile
Completely deranged
This is war now.
People are people, military has no gender.
Definitely need to put pressure on democrats to start fighting back. Republicans were eaten form the inside by conservatives who wear the party's skin to make their bullshit acceptable.
I don't see it stopping except by force at this point.
The Supreme Court's immunity ruling has turned his executive orders into 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴.
Notice he completely ignored the 30 day delay before firing Inspector Generals?
He'll just tell Congress to do nothing about that... or else!
Less talk, more action!
But alcoholic Christian nationalists? OK with us!
She is not allowed to use the female facilities according to Teflon Don.
Do not obey in advance.
It's more than a phrase. It's survival.
The order is lawful based on readiness requirement. Why do you think you’re removed if you get flat feet? Readiness. Why are you removed cause of weight gained, readiness.
If your trans your not matching the readiness requirement
Here’s Neil Gorsuch in 2019 in the Bostock opinion
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-americas-fighting-force/
They love queer death.
I am tired of holding back my tongue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/health/pepfar-trump-freeze.html
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/hiv-prevention/using-hiv-medication-to-reduce-risk/pre-exposure-prophylaxis
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/25/g-s1-44762/pepfar-trump-hiv-foreign-aid
For now, I am in perpetual mourning for the country I thought I lived in, and the things I thought we knew.
Old, white and racist!! 😡
Well, I'll be dead or in prison by then, but still.
So only the dumbest and worst people in the world, but unfortunately that also means the most powerful.
The democrats didn't even talk about trans people in the campaign. You don't get to claim they went too far when they tried to download this as hard as they could.
Like Dems can save-scum their way to electoral victory.
That people prioritized the nonsense you listed over democracy and their own well being is the issue.
Trump is allowed to act illegally by the US govt. Isn’t that obvious by now?
Half the country likes that Trump acts illegally.
Pointing it out accomplishes very little.
So what should be done about it? Any suggestions?
Sure you can sue Trump, but he is effectively above the law. Justice can’t touch him - that’s a fact of reality.
Trump was already president for 4 years. Have you forgotten everything that’s happened?
Sorry, I don’t see any waking up.
From *this* President?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/23/trump-revoked-equal-employment-opportunity-order/
Yet, a substantial number of my friends, some trans & some not, were organizing a PSL write-in campaign
I appreciate that it’s not much, but it would have been much better than now.
Don’t shoot the messenger. 😔