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Transgender troops person betwixt 30 and 60 days to self-separate from the subject aft a tribunal bid allowed the prohibition connected their work to determination forward, according to a Thursday memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
"After a SCOTUS triumph for @POTUS, TRANS is retired astatine the DOD," Hegseth wrote connected X, on with a video announcing the caller deadline.
Approximately 1,000 work members person self–identified arsenic having sex dysphoria and volition statesman the voluntary separation process, according to the Pentagon.
Active work work members person until June 6, 1 period aft the court’s ruling, to permission the military. Reservists person until July 7.
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Transgender troops person betwixt 30 and 60 days to self-separate from the subject aft a tribunal bid allowed the prohibition connected their work to determination forward, according to a Thursday memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
"The Secretary is encouraged by the Supreme Court's bid staying the little court's injunction, allowing the Department of Defense to transportation retired its policies associated with ‘Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,’" Pentagon main spokesperson Sean Parnell said successful a connection celebrating the ruling and announcing the caller timeline.
"In accordance with argumentation present reinstated, work members who person a existent diagnosis oregon past of oregon grounds symptoms accordant with sex dysphoria whitethorn elite to abstracted voluntarily," Hegseth said, adding that if they chose not to bash truthful by the deadline, they would beryllium removed "involuntarily, if necessary."
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A transgender pistillate speaks arsenic subject veterans and their supporters protested against President Donald Trump's policies successful March. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The precocious tribunal ruling was a triumph for the White House, adjacent arsenic the justices did not code the underlying merits of the lawsuit oregon President Donald Trump's Jan. 27 enforcement bid banning transgender work members from the U.S. military.
A little tribunal had issued an injunction connected the policy. The Trump medication argued that delaying the argumentation could airs a menace to U.S. subject readiness.
Trump officials person argued that the transgender subject argumentation "furthers the government’s important interests successful subject readiness, portion cohesion, bully bid and discipline, and avoiding disproportionate costs."
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An enforcement bid signed by Trump successful January ordered Hegseth to update aesculapian standards to guarantee they "prioritize readiness and lethality" and instrumentality enactment to "end the usage of invented and identification-based pronouns" wrong the DOD.
It says that expressing a "gender identity" antithetic from an individual’s enactment astatine commencement does not conscionable subject standards.
A categorical prohibition connected transgender work members was lifted successful 2014 nether then-President Barack Obama.
Between Jan. 1, 2016, and May 14, 2021, the DOD reportedly spent astir $15 cardinal connected providing transgender treatments (surgical and nonsurgical) to 1,892 active-duty work members, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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The transgender prohibition is portion of a broader propulsion by the caller Pentagon enactment to basal retired immoderate policies related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Last month, Hegseth announced that "99.9%" of DEI-related policies had been eliminated astatine the Defense Department, arsenic helium raised standards for fittingness tests and moved to guarantee the combat fittingness trial held men and women to the aforesaid standards.
Fox News' Breanne Deppisch and Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.
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