That can’t possibly be legal. Are they giving all of them a dishonorable discharge or something?
I think they are forcing them out before they’ve qualified for regular retirement.
“Can’t possible be legal” is in many cases no longer an impediment to anything this government wants to do.
Ah. “Thank you for your service and fuck you, freak”, I guess. This administration is so cruel and so evil. Their hatred and bigotry are stronger than their tendency to fellate the armed forces.
I’ve been told that y’all are being hysterical and this issue should take a firm backseat to global warming.
…which should take a back seat to inflation, which should take a back seat to the ending of Democracy, which should take a back seat to tariffs, which should take a back seat to the most important issue: illegal immigrants taking our jerbs!
I am reminded of the Bush (Jr) administration booting lots of gay members of the military, which came back to bite them on the ass because this included a disproportionate number of Arabic interpreters for some reason.
Republicans don’t fellate the armed forces anymore; at least not American ones. They just call them “woke” and funnel all their funding into their own pockets.
Well, there’s nothing even slightly homoerotic about,
THE RUSSIAN VIDEO SHOWED MUSCULAR MEN DOING SHIRTLESS PUSH-UPS WITH GUNS AND FIGHTER JETS
as we all learned by watching the historical document called Top Gun.
How many times do I have to say “No law enforces itself” before it finally sinks in?
Show of hands, who will be surprised when the headline is
The U.S. Military has decided to deny early retirement options for Black service members with 15 to 18 years of service who retire early because of the shaving policy.?
Oh wait, that’s already ready to happen,
This is off topic for the thread but yeah, this is already happening. Over my career I saw a concerted effort (too little and too slow, unfortunately, but still present) to update regulations which were clearly intended for a very white, very male status quo. Hair styles and colors, tattoos, jewelry, uniforms, and yes, shaving waivers.
And one of the first things Hegseth did was rescind all of that as being “woke.” Fucker.
While I wholeheartedly support this threads focus on the attacks on the LGBTQIA+ and when they’re through with them they’ll turn their attention to rest of the letters. We’ve already seen that their focus is not limited to just the LGBTQIA+ with Laura Loomer’s desire to feed every Hispanic in America to alligators and Republican efforts to, quite literally, whitewash slavery with all that follows from that.
We run into this difficult problem that too many racial and religious minority groups are hostile to ‘sexual’ minorities and fail to understand that their support of the Republicans war on the transgendered will become a war on them next.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
~ Benjamin Franklin
But somewhere, Martin Niemöller is watching all of this unfold, and weeping…
Holy fucking shit. This is terrifying.(Gift link, gist is in the title of the url)
Yep, it sure is. Can’t oppress people as a group unless you have a means of identifying them.
Once they properly identify all of the transgender people they’ll use these subpoenas for medical information as a precedent to pry into the health records of other people to search for other categories of people that need to be Othered, identified, and oppressed.
From the article:
That’s an easy one. Yes, laws have been broken. Primarily HIPAA laws, and attempts under the color of authority to circumvent them.
In compliance with the “demanding data on children’s gender-related treatments” the hospitals should report all the circumcisions they performed…
That is indeed terrifying.
I’ve been growing increasingly concerned that I’m at risk of imprisonment or worse for providing gender affirming care to my son. Nobody I’ve told this to has pushed back, but it’s also clear none of them were in the same pessimistic state I’ve been in. This is just one step closer.
You know how the Catholic school shooter was someone who thought they’d been brainwashed into being trans?
Well… I thought Republicans were against gun control. But apparently they’re even more against transgender people.
“Gun control for thee but not for me.”
What’s the problem with that? I looked it up in my copy of the US Constitution, and it clearly states:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed, unless you identify as a gender you were not assigned at birth.”
Totally constitutional!
Anything to distract from the fact that the majority of school shooters were straight, White, Christian males. Control any group but that one.