1,000 Troops Who Identify as Transgender Being Discharged: Pentagon

The Supreme Court recently said the military could go through with the separations.

About 1,000 troops who have been identified as having gender dysphoria are being discharged from the military, the Department of Defense said on May 8.

โ€œToday, the Department will issue guidance to the Military Departments and Services ending the accession of individuals with a current diagnosis or history of, or symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria and all non-medically necessary treatment,โ€ Sean Parnell, a department spokesman, said in a statement.

โ€œApproximately 1,000 Service members who have self-identified as being diagnosed with gender dysphoria will begin the voluntary separation process.โ€

The force has around 2.1 million troops.

Gender dysphoria is when a person believes theyโ€™re a gender that does not match their sex. At least some of the troops with gender dysphoria have begun or finished transgender treatments in an attempt to transition to a gender different from that of their sex, according to court filings.

A majority of Supreme Court justices on May 6 entered a stay of a lower court order in a case brought by a subset of the transgender troops, allowing the military to enforce a memorandum that said troops with gender dysphoria or who have symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria would be discharged unless they were granted an exemption.

resident Donald Trumpโ€™s first administration banned transgender troops. Under President Joe Biden, the military rescinded the ban.

Trump said in a January order that โ€œexpressing a false โ€˜gender identityโ€™ divergent from an individualโ€™s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.โ€

โ€œThis is the presidentโ€™s agenda, this is what the American people voted for, and weโ€™re going to continue to relentlessly pursue it,โ€ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a video statement.

In a new memo dated May 8, Hegseth wrote that โ€œservice by individuals with a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibiting symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is not in the best interest of the Military Services and is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security.โ€

The military said that troops with gender dysphoria can choose to voluntarily separate, and that if they do so, they may be eligible for voluntary separation pay.

The deadline to identify themselves for voluntary separation is June 6 for active-duty troops and July 7 for reserves. Both windows were extended, the former for 30 days and the latter for 60 days, from before.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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