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As much as 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the navy in new Pentagon order
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As much as 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the navy in new Pentagon order

Last updated: May 9, 2025 2:59 am
Editorial Board Published May 9, 2025
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will instantly start transferring as many as 1,000 brazenly figuring out transgender service members out of the navy and provides others 30 days to self-identify below a brand new directive issued Thursday.

Buoyed by Tuesday’s Supreme Court docket choice permitting the Trump administration to implement a ban on transgender people within the navy, the Protection Division will start going via medical information to determine others who haven’t come ahead.

Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, who issued the most recent memo, made his views clear after the courtroom’s choice.

“No more pronouns,” he informed a particular operations forces convention in Tampa. “No more dudes in dresses. We’re done with that s—.”

Division officers have mentioned it’s troublesome to find out precisely what number of transgender service members there are, however medical information will present those that have been recognized with gender dysphoria, who present signs or are being handled.

These troops would then be involuntarily pressured out of the service. And nobody with that prognosis might be allowed to enlist. Gender dysphoria happens when an individual’s organic intercourse doesn’t match up with their gender identification.

Officers have mentioned that as of Dec. 9, 2024, there have been 4,240 troops recognized with gender dysphoria within the energetic obligation, Nationwide Guard and Reserve. However they acknowledge the quantity could also be increased.

There are about 2.1 million complete troops serving.

The memo launched Thursday mirrors one despatched out in February, however any motion was stalled at that time by a number of lawsuits.

The Supreme Court docket dominated that the administration might implement the ban on transgender individuals within the navy, whereas different authorized challenges proceed. The courtroom’s three liberal justices mentioned they’d have saved the coverage on maintain.

Neither the justices within the majority or dissent defined their votes, which isn’t unusual in emergency appeals.

When the preliminary Pentagon directive got here out earlier this yr, it gave service members 30 days to self-identify. Since then, about 1,000 have completed so.

In an announcement, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell mentioned the 1,000 troops who already self-identified “will begin the voluntary separation process” from the navy.

Underneath the brand new pointers, energetic obligation troops may have till June 6 to voluntarily determine themselves to the division, and troops within the Nationwide Guard and Reserve may have till July 7.

Whereas it could be troublesome to see which troops have modified their gender identification of their navy information, it is going to be simpler to find out who has gotten a gender dysphoria prognosis as a result of that might be a part of their medical document, as will any medicine they’re taking.

Between 2015 and 2024, the full price for psychotherapy, gender-affirming hormone remedy, gender-affirming surgical procedure and different therapy for service members is about $52 million, in accordance with a protection official, who spoke on situation of anonymity to debate personnel points.

Pentagon officers in an earlier memo defended the ban, saying that “the medical, surgical, and mental health constraints on individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are incompatible with the high mental and physical standards necessary for military service.”

The brand new Pentagon coverage would permit for restricted exemptions.

That features transgender personnel searching for to enlist who can show on a case-by-case foundation that they instantly help warfighting actions, or if an present service member recognized with gender dysphoria can show they help a selected warfighting want, by no means transitioned to the gender they determine with and proves over 36 months they’re secure of their organic intercourse “without clinically significant distress.”

If a waiver is issued, the applicant would nonetheless face a state of affairs the place solely their organic intercourse was acknowledged for toilet amenities, sleeping quarters and even in official recognition, equivalent to being referred to as “Sir” or “Ma’am.”

Initially Revealed: Might 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM EDT

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