In a landmark and deeply divisive decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today to allow President Donald Trump's renewed ban on transgender individuals serving in the military to take effect while it is being contested in the courts.
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It must be painful for some of the supreme court judges to have to pose for a group photo with Clarence Thomas. Thomas is a blight on the history of the highest court.
The Republican judges getting in line. The Democrats never did understand the importance of succession planning. The transgender community is just the first to have their rights removed. The Supreme court is just warming up.
In my view, if anyone is willing to serve in the military in service of this shithole country, this shithole country should be damn grateful. They are in no position to be removing anyone from service who is serving honorably. What the hell have you done for the country, lately MAGAs?
It's time to shut America down, IMO. National strike until trump, jd vance, mike johnson, barrett, kavenaugh, and gorsush are removed. Then, trump, musk, vance and johnson are charged with sedition and treason. After that we charge House and Senate maga Republicans with the same. FOR STARTERS.
All of the senior ranking members removed cuz of DEI, the trans people being banned, all of the military people with friends or family currently in fear for their life- they need to get together and form a Militia. And we join. And we fight back. How else are we getting out of this??🤔
Yesss! @generalstrikeus.bsky.social is gathering strike cards for a general strike to ensure we have the numbers before implementing. And they have FAQs on their site
What the fuck kind of ruling is this? You don't upend people's lives before you determine if it's even legal to do so. Fuck every conservative "justice". They aren't even justices. They rule based on politics and not the constitution. Corrupt, evil motherfuckers. 😠
We need protest, and educate the public by surgically removing the bullshit implanted by Trumpanzee and the GOP since they decided to use "transgender" as a political weapon. The disinformation has been spectacular, and we need to go against it with equally spectacular facts and science.
Women will be side by side with men in the next great conflict. They will also be coming home in boxes. Yet the trans community will be at home chillaxing and enjoying the freedoms other Americans are dying to provide. So this ban is dumb. Trans people need to fight also.
Exactly, what doesn’t get taught in schools is that immigrants, disabled people, and queer people were targeted first—before judges, lawyers, unionists. They made queer people wear pink triangles, which was later reclaimed by the Act Up group during the AIDS epidemic.
Trump's answer "The Catholics loved it"when clearly they didn't "But it wasn't me" So what is it they loved what you posted or you didn't post it ? What a horrible lier how could anyone have ever believed anything that immature 80 year old ever said He's worse than your bullshitting grandfather
Allowing a felon to be president, but a transgender individual is banned from military service: justice?🦅A secretary of defense denies promised military support to a country fighting for freedom, but judges won't see all individuals as humans: justice? Grifting deals for coffers 👍, trans 👎 Justice?
Hope everyone who stayed home and poured over Gaza or Harris not being a unicorn candidate are happy. Yall caused this. I’d say maybe yall will learn but u didn’t learn after 2016 so some of you are hopeless. Get it through your thick skulls: Elections have Consequences.
It's a bullshit ruling, but keep it in perspective. The Court didn't rule on the merits, it just permitted the ban to continue while the appeals process moves through the lower courts. Now it's up to the Ninth Circuit to write a bulletproof decision overturning the ban.
the role religion is playing in this court is beyond the pale, conservative, religious zealots believe their god is infallible, incapable of ‘gender mistakes’ therefore members of the lgbtq community are liars fully deserving of being called dishonorable-factor religion into most of their decisions
There's not going to be one ruling against him by the SC. They gave him carte blanche to do what he wants with this country. They're in way too deep now and there's no way out for them. I don't expect them to ever rule against him again. 🙄
This judgement is fundamentally wrong. In effect it is prejudging the merits of the case without due process. The correct decision is clearly to maintain the status quo during appeal.
Of course. The Supreme Court is just going to let Trump do whatever he wants, no matter what the rest of the judicial branch precedent establishes. Who cares about silly things like the rule of law anymore...?
At least they protected our country. Which is more than you can say about Donold the bone spurs that got his doctor to give him a bogus waiver. Why are they so focused on this anyway.
Republicans are trying to push through a law to give Trump ROYAL EXECUTIVE POWERS.
The courts are checking those powers. The GOP wants to weaken the Executive Branch. They want Donald Trump’s Sharpie to hold more weight than a judge’s ruling.
Call your Senators & Reps today. Stop the effort now.
So back when I was still on active duty in the Army. I was sitting around having a beer with another pilot and during the course of our conversation another, 3rd pilot's name came up. My friend, we'll call him Joe, says "by the way, that dude used to be a chick."
had Joe never brought it up. No way to know based on appearance. No way to know based on performance. No way to know based on physical fitness standards. Even in face to face interactions, still never doubted this dude being a dude.
Joe continues, "yah, he's the coolest dude I know. He's a great /2
Performance, appearance and physical fitness, you'd never guess. Hell, in the physical fitness realm, that dude outperformed most of us biologically male at birth soldiers.
These bans are a disgrace.
We invest an incredible amount of time, resources /3
and taxpayer funds into training every pilot and to say, sorry, even though you've proven yourself, there's the door to guys like him, wasted all that money, time and effort that went into training an excellent pilot and soldier.
All any of us ever cared about in the Army, was, can you still hack/4
him." And never given it a second thought or guss.
But hey, let's just throw years of training, and in this case, millions of dollars in the shitter because Kegseth and the orange menace are bigots and hypocrites.
So Trump's supreme court is allowing him to ban qualified, all voluntary individuals while Trump appointed an unqualified, part time news anchor from Fox, as Secretary of Defense & the position was downgraded from Secretary Lloyd Austin, 39 years retired 4 star General, West Point graduate. Got it🤯
So the cowardly 5x draft-dodger has some thoughts on who should be allowed to serve? More distracting culture war bs from the party of billionaire glory-hole glazers.
Not just wrong decision, it's bad law. Court should look at harms from decision. If stayed, there is no harm to the military. If allowed but later reversed, there is major harm to the military via disruption, inefficiency, bureaucracy, etc, not to speak of impacted soldier's lives being disrupted.
There’s no reason to keep this in effect while it’s being litigated except to normalize the ugly animus that underlies the ban for as long possible, even if eventually struck down.
Military recruitment is declining and we know this regime will do a major number on recruitment, nobody wants to fight a toddlers wars. So we're increasing Military spending yet again while discharging thousands of qualified soldiers already trained & heavily invested in. Makes no sense.
The gender of the person serving our country has absolutely no impact on their ability to fulfill their duties. This is ridiculous and emberassing. In 5 years, they will be begging people to enlist.
That ruling is unconstitutional they once again broken the oath to protect it there shall be no discrimination in the fucking army these vile peaces of shit justices they should get capital punishment for treason
Yet not a single one of those conservatives who ruled in favor of this have the gumption to serve. Not claiming I want to either, but curtailing the abled bodied trans men and women's right to do so is despicable.
I am so sorry to my trans siblings currently serving. Fuck Donald Trump and the GOP.
Can’t wrap my head around this one. So, it’s okay to proceed with a potentially illegal act, lifting injunctions and stays, while lower court are still reviewing the case? This seems to be setting an extremely dangerous precedent that will be abused.
Transgender people are willing to fight for us—willing to put their lives on the line for a country that turns around and tells them they're not allowed to serve...It’s heartbreaking to watch the U.S. lose its sense of values and morality
BONE SPURS T never had the guts to serve. HIS DADDY got a doctor to fake a note for little Trump. Trump stated he doesn't like people who get captured but likes those that don't get captured about McCain. Let that sink in.
Right wing nut Christo-Fascists hiding under black robes. And Mango Moron decries activist judges? Are you f***g kidding me? His stacked SCOTUS is the worst of the worst.
We are not leaving anyone behind. All Americans have civil rights no matter what administration comes along and tries to decide otherwise. LGBTQ rights are human rights.
I think everyone who is eligible, regardless of their sexual orientation, should leave the current military. Anyone who is considering enlisting should think deep and hard before joining a deeply flawed system.
And, of COURSE I’m not intimating that they will splatter Hegseth across his office walls and window, or drop JD Vance into a volcano out of a C-130. I’m NOT intimating that.
At least women's bathrooms are safe. You know for the majority population without ratified rights/privileges but forced birthing era again. 1 job guys. Women around the world not for equality but equity.
1789, our Founders enacted a Constitution to protect us from being ruled by a king, dictator, or tyrant.
In 2024, the Roberts Court majority has taken us down a dangerous road allowing dictators and authoritarians to bypass the Constitution’s checks-and-balances and exercise unchecked, power.
The SCrOTUS judges should really worry for their safety a lot more than they seem to. Seriously. If someone abuses their power to enslave a few hundred million people to a dictator, they shouldn’t feel safe anywhere. Ever again.
Sanctioned prejudice, persecution, and destruction of American lives. For what?
What does this achieve? The amount that these fascists care about people’s genitalia is profoundly, pathologically sick. Not to mention a violation of citizens’ rights, and the constitution.
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Today, I wholeheartedly agree.
be expanded to 13 to match the number of Circuit Courts! 😡
I hope they also take away Hegseth's makeup room in the Pentagon because real men don't need to wear blush to be pretty.
Trans men are strong as fuck!
This is targeted bias and has nothing to do with military readiness, which is something mr bone spurs would know nothing about.
All others are not entitled to these rights.
Boy was I educated in the wrong era. Fuck those religious nationalistic conservatives and their diaper-wearing stooge.
The courts are checking those powers. The GOP wants to weaken the Executive Branch. They want Donald Trump’s Sharpie to hold more weight than a judge’s ruling.
Call your Senators & Reps today. Stop the effort now.
Why such retrograde b behaviour???
I would have never known this, /1
Joe continues, "yah, he's the coolest dude I know. He's a great /2
That topic never came up again.
Performance, appearance and physical fitness, you'd never guess. Hell, in the physical fitness realm, that dude outperformed most of us biologically male at birth soldiers.
These bans are a disgrace.
We invest an incredible amount of time, resources /3
All any of us ever cared about in the Army, was, can you still hack/4
Saying trans can't do the job for no other reason than they're being Trans is horse shit.
Had Joe never said anything, my thoughts of that dude would've never gone past, "this guy's squared away and on top of it. I'd go to war with /5
But hey, let's just throw years of training, and in this case, millions of dollars in the shitter because Kegseth and the orange menace are bigots and hypocrites.
They are no longer relevant. ☠️
HINT: CHRISTIANS ARE NOT OPPRESSED
I am so sorry to my trans siblings currently serving. Fuck Donald Trump and the GOP.
Seems a partisan decision not based on merits.
BUT, if MAGA tries to stop a Democratic policy, it gets halted immediately, pending it getting through the courts?
Oh…this doesn’t benefit anyone? Just hurts individuals willing to risk their lives for this country? 😐
That being said: This shouldn't even be an argument, they have every right to serve their country.
And it's also the easiest task in the world to pick out the only woman out of the 4 to vote for the ban to proceed.
Fuck's sake, Amy. 😔
Transgender veteran, US Army, '89-98
In 2024, the Roberts Court majority has taken us down a dangerous road allowing dictators and authoritarians to bypass the Constitution’s checks-and-balances and exercise unchecked, power.
What does this achieve? The amount that these fascists care about people’s genitalia is profoundly, pathologically sick. Not to mention a violation of citizens’ rights, and the constitution.
She was RIGHT about “this” too🫠