by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2025 Real World News
The Pentagon is moving to discharge transgender troops.
According to a policy memo issued on Wednesday, transgender service members will be removed from the military within 60 days unless they are granted a waiver demonstrating their support of “warfighting capabilities.”
“Service by these individuals is not in the best interests of the Military Services and is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security,” the policy memo states.
The memo suggests a history of gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.
Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a directive which paused integrating new transgender recruits and suspended trans treatments for current service members. Hegseth said the Department of Defense recognizes only two sexes, male and female, in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order and requires all service members to “only serve in accordance with their sex.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 27 which states that allowing transgender individuals to serve in the armed forces threatens military readiness and undermines unit cohesion.
Military personnel diagnosed with gender dysphoria may be retained “on a case-by-case basis,” provided there is a compelling government interest in doing so, the Pentagon said. But service members will have to prove they never took steps to transition genders and demonstrate 36 months of stability living in line with their birth sex “without clinically significant distress.”
SPARTA Pride, an advocacy group for transgender service members, claimed that active transgender troops “are fully qualified for the positions in which they serve.”
“No policy will ever erase transgender Americans’ contribution to history, warfighting, or military excellence,” the organization — whose president, Emily Shilling, a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Trump’s order — said Thursday. “Transgender service members have a unique fighting spirit and will continue to defend the constitution and American Values no matter what lies ahead.”
RedState’s streiff noted: “The ban on transgenders is long overdue. If a transgender has progressed beyond the point of Klinger-esque crossdressing, they probably are not deployable because of the psychiatric and medical care they need to continue their attempt to transition from something they are into something they aren’t. In context, a kid with braces can’t enlist. A kid who has taken Adderall or Ritalin in the previous three years can’t enlist. And yet we not only enlisted transgenders, we allowed them to have surgery at government expense.”
You’ve spent 15 years enlisted in the military.
You’ve been on 8 combat tours, have a few KIA bracelets on your wrists, & you missed your 2nd child’s birth because you were overseas.
In walks your new commander, Major “Rachel” Jones.pic.twitter.com/OmCAKPAdNa
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