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Transgender troops person betwixt 30 and 60 days to self-separate from nan subject aft a tribunal bid allowed nan prohibition connected their work to move forward, according to a Thursday memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
"After a SCOTUS triumph for @POTUS, TRANS is retired astatine nan DOD," Hegseth wrote connected X, on pinch a video announcing nan caller deadline.
Approximately 1,000 work members person self–identified arsenic having gender dysphoria and will statesman nan voluntary separation process, according to nan Pentagon.
Active work work members person until June 6, 1 period aft nan court’s ruling, to time off nan military. Reservists person until July 7.
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Transgender troops person betwixt 30 and 60 days to self-separate from nan subject aft a tribunal bid allowed nan prohibition connected their work to move forward, according to a Thursday memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
"The Secretary is encouraged by nan Supreme Court's bid staying nan little court's injunction, allowing nan Department of Defense to transportation retired its policies associated pinch ‘Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,’" Pentagon main spokesperson Sean Parnell said successful a connection celebrating nan ruling and announcing nan caller timeline.
"In accordance pinch argumentation now reinstated, work members who person a existent test aliases history of aliases grounds symptoms accordant pinch gender dysphoria whitethorn elite to abstracted voluntarily," Hegseth said, adding that if they chose not to do truthful by nan deadline, they would beryllium removed "involuntarily, if necessary."
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A transgender female 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 nan White House, moreover arsenic nan justices did not reside nan underlying merits of nan lawsuit aliases President Donald Trump's Jan. 27 executive bid banning transgender work members from nan U.S. military.
A little tribunal had issued an injunction connected nan policy. The Trump management based on that delaying nan argumentation could airs a threat to U.S. subject readiness.
Trump officials person based on that nan transgender subject argumentation "furthers nan government’s important interests successful subject readiness, portion cohesion, bully bid and discipline, and avoiding disproportionate costs."
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An executive bid signed by Trump successful January ordered Hegseth to update aesculapian standards to guarantee they "prioritize readiness and lethality" and return action to "end nan usage of invented and identification-based pronouns" wrong nan DOD.
It says that expressing a "gender identity" different from an individual’s activity astatine commencement does not meet 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, nan DOD reportedly spent astir $15 cardinal connected providing transgender treatments (surgical and nonsurgical) to 1,892 active-duty work members, according to nan Congressional Research Service.
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The transgender prohibition is portion of a broader push by nan caller Pentagon activity to guidelines 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 nan Defense Department, arsenic he raised standards for fittingness tests and moved to guarantee nan combat fittingness trial held men and women to nan aforesaid standards.
Fox News' Breanne Deppisch and Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.
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