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JohnSJ

(98,793 posts)
Tue May 6, 2025, 02:08 PM May 6

Supreme Court Lets Trump Discharge Transgender Servicemembers

Last edited Tue May 6, 2025, 02:54 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Bloomberg

A divided US Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to start discharging thousands of transgender servicemembers, including people who have served openly for years.

Over dissents from the three liberal justices, the court dealt a major blow to LGBTQ rights, pausing a lower court order that had put President Donald Trump’s new ban on hold during a legal fight. The court gave no explanation in its one-page order, which applies while the litigation continues.

During Trump’s first term, the Supreme Court let an earlier transgender military ban take effect, but the president’s new policy goes further by calling for the expulsion of people who have already transitioned.

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Trump issued his ban through a Jan. 27 executive order, which said expressing a “false” gender identity “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle” and “is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”


The challengers in the high court case included seven active-duty servicemembers and a man who says he wants to join the Marines. The group is led by Navy Commander Emily Shilling, who has flown more than 60 combat missions as a pilot. Shilling, who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq and is a Navy test pilot, says the military has spent more than $20 million training her.


Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/supreme-court-lets-trump-discharge-transgender-servicemembers

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Supreme Court Lets Trump Discharge Transgender Servicemembers (Original Post) JohnSJ May 6 OP
omg! Now that trump can legally do this transgender folks, he can do it to other groups. damn! ... riversedge May 6 #1
6-3 Polybius May 6 #2
Does that mean he can discharge all women, too? quaint May 6 #3
yup Owens May 6 #9
Next up BAN Transgenders from ALL workplace's! bluestarone May 6 #4
Assholes! 1WorldHope May 6 #5
I'm sure without a hearing as well, RIGHT? bluestarone May 6 #6
Hateful bigots! 2MuchNoise May 6 #7
christo-fascists wolfie001 May 6 #8
Let Trump and the supreme suckups orangecrush May 6 #10
How is this not discriminatory? Bayard May 7 #11

riversedge

(75,739 posts)
1. omg! Now that trump can legally do this transgender folks, he can do it to other groups. damn! ...
Tue May 6, 2025, 02:27 PM
May 6

This really is a blow to all minority groups==and I say in and out of any service.


It is just a matter of time.


The only thing that can help them now is for Congress to pass a law--and we know that will not happen.

bluestarone

(19,831 posts)
6. I'm sure without a hearing as well, RIGHT?
Tue May 6, 2025, 02:52 PM
May 6

I fear ALL decisions from this day on will total destruction of our DEMOCRACY!!

wolfie001

(5,044 posts)
8. christo-fascists
Tue May 6, 2025, 03:21 PM
May 6

No other description is necessary. It is what it is. This is because they put the bible above all else. Sick fucks. All 6 of 'em.

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