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Eugene

(66,216 posts)
Thu May 8, 2025, 07:14 PM May 2025

Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the military in new Pentagon order

Source: Le Monde with AP

Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the military in new Pentagon order

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who issued the latest memo, made his views clear after the court’s decision: 'No More Trans @ DoD,' he wrote in a post on X.

Le Monde with AP

Published today at 12:14 am (Paris)
1 min read

The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify, under a new directive issued Thursday, May 8.

Buoyed by Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a ban on transgender individuals in the military, the Defense Department will then begin going through medical records to identify others who haven’t come forward.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who issued the latest memo, made his views clear after the court’s decision.

"No More Trans @ DoD," Hegseth wrote in a post on X. Earlier in the day, before the court acted, Hegseth was more blunt, telling a conference that his department is leaving wokeness and weakness behind. "No more pronouns," he told a special operations forces conference in Tampa.

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Read more: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/05/09/up-to-1-000-transgender-troops-are-being-moved-out-of-the-military-in-new-pentagon-order_6741069_4.html

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Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the military in new Pentagon order (Original Post) Eugene May 2025 OP
All the taxpayer money spent training those personnel. bucolic_frolic May 2025 #1
Millions of training dollars wasted. TommyT139 May 2025 #2
Same story, alternate source: WTOP mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles May 2025 #4
imagine being booted out by a draft dodging seditionist and his alky rapist sidekick Skittles May 2025 #5
This makes me sick. 2MuchNoise May 2025 #6
We have the Trans timms139 May 2025 #7
It will lead to suicides, but they don't care. 70sEraVet May 2025 #8

bucolic_frolic

(51,998 posts)
1. All the taxpayer money spent training those personnel.
Thu May 8, 2025, 07:19 PM
May 2025

Not efficient at all. A waste of resources at this point.

TommyT139

(1,740 posts)
2. Millions of training dollars wasted.
Thu May 8, 2025, 07:19 PM
May 2025

Thanks for helping stand up the queer militia!

(I kid, I kid!)

mahatmakanejeeves

(66,373 posts)
3. Same story, alternate source: WTOP
Thu May 8, 2025, 07:20 PM
May 2025
Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the military in new Pentagon order

The Associated Press
May 8, 2025, 6:46 PM


Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens during a meeting with Peru's Foreign Affairs Minister Elmer Schialer and Peru's Minister of Defense Walter Astudillo at the Pentagon, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)(AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday.

Buoyed by Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a ban on transgender individuals in the military, the Defense Department will begin going through medical records to identify others who haven’t come forward.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who issued the latest memo, made his views clear after the court’s decision.

“No More Trans @ DoD,” Hegseth wrote in a post on X. Earlier in the day, before the court acted, Hegseth said that his department is leaving wokeness and weakness behind.

“No more pronouns,” he told a special operations forces conference in Tampa. “No more dudes in dresses. We’re done with that s—.”

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Response to Eugene (Original post)

Skittles

(166,789 posts)
5. imagine being booted out by a draft dodging seditionist and his alky rapist sidekick
Thu May 8, 2025, 07:33 PM
May 2025

fucking disgusting

timms139

(363 posts)
7. We have the Trans
Thu May 8, 2025, 09:02 PM
May 2025

Folks who volunteered for military duty being removed to satisfy the whims of the Orange Mango who faked bone spurs to avoid the military . Something just backwards about this move .

70sEraVet

(4,770 posts)
8. It will lead to suicides, but they don't care.
Thu May 8, 2025, 09:11 PM
May 2025

I served when just the rumor that a serviceman was gay would land you an 'other than honorable'. God only knows how many deaths it led to.
I think of that sometimes, when I'm putting flags on veterans' graves for Memorial Day.

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