Trump signs executive order banning transgenders from the military

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But did you Skeet? (@thepassionittwists.bsky.social)

So y'all realized that when they get all the women, Black and Brown folks, LGBTQ folks out of the military they're going to have to reinstate the draft to replenish the ranks with white men right? https://media.tenor.com/xt98Flzz4cMAAAAC/sar%C4%B1%C5%9Fahin-yellowsahin.gif?hh=284&ww=498

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But did you Skeet?
So y'all realized that when they get all the women, Black and Brown folks, LGBTQ folks out of the military they're going to have to reinstate the draft to replenish the ranks with white men right?

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‪LANana-Nuestra Señora de la Muerte del Pan ‬ ‪@lanana421.bsky.social‬
Lol, and none of those out of shape, uneducated, pasty boys will be qualified, so they'll have to lower the qualification standards



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‪But did you Skeet?‬ ‪@thepassionittwists.bsky.social‬
They've already lowered standards and they're still not qualifying.



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‪2strong2silence.bsky.social‬ ‪@2strong2silence.bsky.social‬
Yup. Black women helped them meet their recruiting quota. Oh well. I’m sure the 53% will be more than happy to give up their sons for the cause. Right?



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‪PortiaMcGonagal‬ ‪@portiamcgonagal.bsky.social‬
And the Sons of Apathy will find out how unlike their video game fantasies things are. Plus mommy isn’t making your bed anymore Skippy.



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‪PickyVeg‬ ‪@jillrachelle.bsky.social‬
Ahem... *poor* white men. Just saying.



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‪BlueBloodedDem‬ ‪@bluebloodeddem.bsky.social‬
I'm sure meal team 6 will be locked and loaded for duty. That's who they gonna have to depend on because I'm talking my family members out of the military. Glad they are not wanted.

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‪HR Ryan‬ ‪@hrryan.bsky.social‬
Yeah I've been wondering about that. Plus there is that tidbit in Project 2025 about enforcing the military entrance exam, but only for public school kids - not the ones in Christian schools.



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‪Atticus Finch‬ ‪@atticus10.bsky.social‬
Well of course! Not the rich privileged “white” boys! Basically the Trumps of America get a pass! Wonder if Baron will???



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‪Sonny‬ ‪@sonny9636.bsky.social‬
He’s got bone spurs too.



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‪That Nice Lotion Lady - Courtney K.‬ ‪@thatnicelotionlady.bsky.social‬
Oh yeah. I've got a couple nephews that are not going to be able to get out of a draft.

And yes, their mother's and I do not get along.

I have drafted thousands of texts. Waiting for that moment.



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‪nightshades101.bsky.social‬ ‪@nightshades101.bsky.social‬
DRAFT! DRAFT! DRAFT!



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‪Libbitywho‬ ‪@libbityboo.bsky.social‬


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‪But did you Skeet?‬ ‪@thepassionittwists.bsky.social‬


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‪Libbitywho‬ ‪@libbityboo.bsky.social‬
I don't have any white sons. Good luck to those maga moms though.



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‪Thee Natalie Rushman from Legal‬ ‪@elsaorgana.bsky.social‬
I have 3. One is ineligible because he’s legally blind. Them potentially being grist for a war mill keeps me up at night.



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‪Libbitywho‬ ‪@libbityboo.bsky.social‬
Sorry



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‪Thee Natalie Rushman from Legal‬ ‪@elsaorgana.bsky.social‬
Thanks friend Oldest son is almost 15 and the best kid ever. Lives his values 100%. I’ve been afraid the will start a WW3 for 10 years now, on top of the daily prayer that he’ll survive the school day. It’s. A lot.



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‪Libbitywho‬ ‪@libbityboo.bsky.social‬
It is a lot



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‪Maitrijen⁷‬ ‪@maitrijen.bsky.social‬
Decimating the US military is music to Putin’s & Xi’s ears.



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‪Winnie Frolik‬ ‪@winniethewitch.bsky.social‬
Funny thing is I heard of young people voting for Trump because they were afraid Biden and/or Kamala wanted to bring back the draft!

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.



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‪ikavinawines.bsky.social‬ ‪@ikavinawines.bsky.social‬
Mediocre and substandard white men



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‪CinCat‬ ‪@cincat83.bsky.social‬
Do they know what they have left to work with?



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‪Sara Webb‬ ‪@sarawebb.bsky.social‬
Sadly, thinking ahead a couple of steps does not seem to be in the cognitive repertoire of those who voted for him. Also, having a large military for outward defense is not so important to the administration. Having an all-male, all-white military for internal offense IS.



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‪African Princess‬ ‪@africanprincess7.bsky.social‬
I'm okay with that.



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‪EnJay LeMSW‬ ‪@og818girl.bsky.social‬
Only the poor ones, and we all know how America feels about her poor.



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‪Lola‬ ‪@lolatep.bsky.social‬
Months before the election, I remember one of tRumps rambling speeches, where he said with his usual authority, “Many people think I should bring back the draft”.
Pretty sure it’s buried somewhere in Project 2025



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‪NoireQueen‬ ‪@tpark.bsky.social‬
Yep



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‪Liberalservative/Democratican‬ ‪@pwilly3.bsky.social‬
That means some huge out migration of draft dodgers.



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‪Acid-Salty-Dame‬ ‪@acid-salty-dame.bsky.social‬
They'll attempt to draft Black and Brown men. How? They're gonna go to the prison system. And justify not paying them bc they're serving a sentence.
I apologize if it sounds like doom scrolling. The current admin has always glorified enslavement and the school to prison pipeline.



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Judge blocks Trump admin from enforcing anti-transgender executive orders

"Where, as here, government action is motivated by purposeful discrimination, it violates the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee."

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‘Baldfaced stigmatization’: Judge blocks Trump admin from enforcing transgender medical care and ‘gender ideology’ orders, ridicules government for citing Canadian law​

Colin KalmbacherMar 1st, 2025, 10:47 am

US President Donald Trump arrives before signing the Laken Riley Act into law in the East Room at the White House in Washington on January 29, 2025. The law, named after a Georgia student murdered by an undocumented immigrant is the first bill of the second Trump administration (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images).

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing executive orders that aim to curtail transgender medical care.

On Friday afternoon, Joe Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Lauren King, sitting in Seattle, issued a preliminary injunction in favor of four states and three doctors who sued the government earlier this month. Washington, Minnesota, and Oregon were the initial state plaintiffs; Colorado joined the litigation after the original petition was filed.

The injunction does not have nationwide reach, however, and applies in those four states alone – which is in line with the plaintiffs’ requests.

Under the terms of Executive Order 14187, entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” the 45th and 47th president intends to cut off all federal funding for institutions that offer pediatric gender transition services or provide any kind of gender-affirming care for people under the age of 19. In Executive Order 14168, entitled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” Trump directed agencies to “end” federal funding of, and “ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.”

In a 53-page order, the court found most of the challenged provisions violate the separation of powers between the three branches of government.

“Instead of ‘tak[ing] Care that [such] Laws be faithfully executed,’ as is his duty under the Constitution, President Trump issued two Executive Orders directing revocation of the funding for any grant recipients that ‘promote gender ideology,’ including by providing medical care for gender dysphoria,” the court explains. “But the President ‘does not have unilateral authority to refuse to spend the funds’ Congress appropriates, nor can he ‘switch the Constitution on or off at will’ to advance his policy preferences.”

The judge also said the anti-transgender executive orders, in large part, violate the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the laws.

“The Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee prohibits the federal government from treating people differently based on sex or transgender status unless the government can establish an ‘exceedingly persuasive justification’ for doing so and a ‘close means-end fit,” the order goes on. “The government cannot do so here.”

Both of the executive orders “facially discriminate on the basis of transgender status and sex,” the court found. This analysis is brief and based on the text of each order, which specifically single out and condition funding on whether institutions serve transgender individuals, provide gender-affirming care, or “promote gender ideology.”

King goes on to note that the first executive order “is not limited to children, or to irreversible treatments, nor does it target any similar medical interventions performed on cisgender youth,” and therefore is impermissibly broad.

The court spends considerable time ridiculing the notion that one of the executive orders purports to infringe on the rights of adults and medical providers who serve adults.

From the court order, at length:

Despite professing to protect “impressionable children” from the decisions of “adults,” the Medical Services EO bans federally funded institutions from providing the Listed Services to 18- year-old adults. Defendants argue that the Order is not rendered overbroad by its inclusion of 18-year-olds because “the relevant risks apply to adolescents.” Tellingly, the only authority they could locate for this proposition is from Canada, where the age of majority is 19 in four provinces and three territories. But Defendants do not dispute that in all Plaintiff States as well as the vast majority of other U.S. states, 18-year-olds are legally recognized as adults who are generally entitled to make their own medical decisions. The Medical Services EO is wholly devoid of any explanation as to why, in spite of relevant state laws, 18-year-olds should nonetheless be considered “impressionable children” at risk of irreversible harm due to decisions made by “adults.”

The judge says the medical services executive order is poorly written in other ways – namely in how it would generally apply to both transgender and cisgender individuals well beyond gender-affirming care.

In the order, the Trump administration purports to prohibit any “individual who does not identify as his or her sex” from obtaining “puberty blockers.” As it turns out, sometimes puberty blockers are used in cancer treatments, the judge notes. So, the upshot of the executive order is that a transgender individual would be barred from receiving necessary cancer treatment.

In similar fashion, the Trump administration also purports to prohibit surgical procedures “that attempt to alter or remove an individual’s sexual organs to minimize or destroy their natural biological functions,” according to the order. This language would broadly prohibit an 18-year-old from obtaining a vasectomy.

The government, for their part, attempted to redefine some of the language in the order in a motion opposing the injunction – but the judge was not convinced. She said such efforts by the government do “not change [the executive order’s] definitional sweep, just as the Order’s definition of ‘child’ to include 18-year-olds is not altered by the fact that 18-year-olds are not children.”

Next, the judge says the claimed interest by the government is unconvincing. Here, the government’s stated goal is preventing youths from experiencing “regret” that might come later in life from receiving gender-affirming care.

The court doubts, in the first place, whether that is even a legitimate governmental interest – but accepts the idea for the sake of argument. Even then, the court determined, the plaintiffs come out on top of the ensuing debate.

“The Executive Order implicitly recognizes that not all youth who receive gender-affirming care regret it, and it is undisputed that there are serious and sometimes irreversible risks to transgender youth either way,” the order reads. “However, the Medical Services EO takes into account only the risks associated with regret, making no attempt to balance them against the very real risks (supported by ample medical data) facing transgender youth who desire gender-affirming care but do not receive it.”

And, in that debate, the evidence is not a close call.

“Nor does the Order weigh the risks of gender-affirming care against the potential benefits,” the court order continues. “Instead, it simply dismisses the Standards of Care as ‘junk science’ and conclusory pronounces that they ‘lack scientific integrity.’ But almost every court and medical organization to address the issue has disagreed with that view.”

Moreover, the court notes, there is no corresponding attempt by the Trump administration to ban gender-affirming care for cisgender individuals.

The court also thoroughly rejects the second executive order as little more than a “bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group.”

“Defendants were hard-pressed to justify such baldfaced stigmatization,” the court observes. “And they failed to do so, instead focusing their briefing on this point entirely on the ‘serious harms to young people’ that purportedly animate the Medical Services EO. Their sole attempt to explicate the Gender Ideology EO’s government interest—that it is ‘based on concerns about the harms stemming from [e]fforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex’—is conclusory and unsupported. Where, as here, government action is motivated by purposeful discrimination, it violates the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee.”

Friday’s order is not the first time King has weighed in against the Trump administration’s anti-transgender crusade. On Valentine’s Day, the judge issued a temporary restraining order against the policies at issue. Her latest order will now last until the case concludes at the district court level or unless the governments seeks and is granted a stay pending appeal.

 

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Exclusive: The Pentagon will resume gender-affirming care for transgender service members, according to a memo we obtained. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/transgender-troops-military-care-00306827

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Exclusive: The Pentagon will resume gender-affirming care for transgender service members, according to a memo we obtained.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/transgender-troops-military-care-00306827

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modonnell5.bsky.social
Isn’t Hegseth’s new makeup studio at the Pentagon gender-affirming care?

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tokay13.bsky.social
From your article "a key piece of his [Hegseth] effort to make the military more lethal". How about challenging the assumption that having trans members makes our military less "lethal". I'm sure we're lethal enough.

Also, Hegseth has a room in the Pentagon just for his own make-up. Just sayin'

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johnnywonder1996.bsky.social

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tianaadams.bsky.social
They said “fukk you, leaky Pete”

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djorankeil.bsky.social
When the freaking Pentagon and the likes of Goldman Sachs is more progressive than the administration it's like... holy shyt.

I mean, I don't think they're doing it out of any sort of ideological pursuit of the good, it's pure practicality for them, but it's still kinda stunning to see.

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soursocks.bsky.social
That's actually been a thing for a long time. Military leaders have understood for years that embracing more people produces a larger, more cohesive force

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glibone.bsky.social
It's like the damn constitution keeps getting in their way.

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jlroberson.bsky.social
They really should find another country more suited to their tastes.

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dj1au.bsky.social
like Russia or Hungary

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jlroberson.bsky.social
He GUSHES about Hungary. He'd obv be happier there. That's great! Go!

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pharmasus.bsky.social
Pete Hegseth gets his gender affirming makeup so service members should get their care too

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kristymonahan.bsky.social
Who wears a plaid suit? I mean honestly.

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systemneo.inkadia.cc
Plaid suits are good when they're not being worn by evil people.

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dj1au.bsky.social
service members or potential recruits interested in the military who have “a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria” are “incompatible” with U.S. military service.

Nor are alcoholics who are loose with confidential info.

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ellenlg.bsky.social
In an indirect way, Trump will make America better. Trump’s philosophies are so abhorrent that there will be a reaction against him. That will make America better.

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lestatdelc.bsky.social
If we survive as a nation.

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theabh.bsky.social
Hopefully it won’t- time for a new one

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telekon.bsky.social
Pete Hogsbreath will never be a man.

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nolucidity.bsky.social
True, but mostly because he’s inhuman.

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lestatdelc.bsky.social
Because a court ordered them to.

The Trump regime are still bigoted scumbags one and all.

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rhus00.bsky.social
In Mr. Trump's first term, the world was laughing at him. In his second term, Americans are laughing at him.

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mrantifascism.com
That’s great, it’s insane it was cut off in the first place. It’s life saving!

(I cover politics and social issues, focusing on fighting fascism and raising awareness about key injustices. Please follow me if interested!)

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hoosier-jezebel.bsky.social
For real, follow him

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oneeyeonthereich.bsky.social
The Heard Island penguins know what's up

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atticusdogsbody.bsky.social
Is that Zangief coming to body slam Hegseth?

"Lord Putin tell you to be careful, da?"
SLAM
"Why you not be careful?"
SLAM
"You put, ummm, гаечный ключ, what is in English? Wrench, da, da... You put wrench in engine!"
SLAM

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lizziepi.bsky.social
Everything these incompetent morons do has to be undone. Republicans cannot govern and MAGA sure as Hell cannot govern!
We are wasting time backpedaling the wrongdoing when a Democrat in the White House would be working to move America forward with pride and progress like Biden’s term as President.

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ellie141.bsky.social
Well they have made it easier to spot the waste& fraud

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blobrights.bsky.social
Bigots holding Ls is never not funny

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jenhallidayma.bsky.social
Wait ....I thought trans people were no longer allowed in the military.

Hard to keep track of all the bigotry.

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lastres0rt.bsky.social
They can't move fast enough to have gotten rid of all the people already entrenched in there.

Somewhere in our military industrial complex there is a Load Bearing Transgender Person, and their current pronouns are "PISSED/OFF".

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kbark.bsky.social
Am I imagining things: Does Matt Gaetz have a clothing line?

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docqualizer.bsky.social
Another cave-in by the Toddler-In-Chief's administration because he knew they would get defeated in court.

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rpcsas.bsky.social
Alrighty then! It all makes sense now! Putin’s spy in USA helping Trumpy, Musky and Republican idiots take down America. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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irr777.bsky.social
Like that would be any shock

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