Transgender troops face a deadline and a difficult decision: Stay or go?

AP News ^ | Updated 12:02 PM CDT, June 6, 2025 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

[ProtectOurFreedom]

And they are angry they are being forced out by the Trump administration’s renewed ban on transgender troops.

They should be angry at themselves for being freaks and misfits. Or angry at previous administrations and DOD Secretaries who let them enlist in the first place.

[Tell It Right]

If you don't know if you're a dude or a darlin'
Then you can't tell the difference between the barrel and the wadding.

[teeman8r]

perhaps they can get some decision affirming care.

[Fungi]

Their first concern is their sanity—or lack thereof—and not their military service.

[Sicon]

Go, and take your high-heeled combat stilettos with you.

[Prince of Space]

How do we know if the ppl in the article even exist? It’s the NYT ffs and no one was actually identified.

[glennaro]

They need to accept the fact that delusional soldiers constitute a potentially significant — if not a likely threat — on the battlefield.

[fwdude]

It angers me that they are being PAID to bow out.

This is a seconds-old new contrived policy, relatively speaking, and was only implemented by Obama on his way out.

[redshawk]

It once was that mental disorders disqualified one from joining the military. If one does not know if they are a boy or a girl, I’d say that that is a mental disorder of the most high.

[A Navy Vet]

Take the money and run. There are still plenty of woke companies that would hire you on your “merits”.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Stay or go?

Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!

[Gay State Conservative]

Give them a few bucks and a general discharge. No veteran’s benefits...just “goodbye”.If they refuse to go quietly...court martial them.

[TheDon]

It's all I ever wanted.

[CaptainK]

“That was the tipping point for Roni Ferrell, an Army specialist at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington.
Ferrell, 28, lives on base with her wife and two children and had planned to stay in the Army for at least another decade”

He posts selfies of himself on the internet but I’d rather not post them here. Heavy make up and large implants. There is definitely something wrong with him and has no place in the service. Pray for his children.

[frank ballenger]

Another example of how poetry can reach for immortality.

Good one.

[Vision]

Maybe try getting help and stop stressing society.

[dfwgator]

If they go there will be trouble
And if they stay it will be double

[pfflier]

They are all non-deployables anyway?? Curious how many are on hormone therapy.

I hope thae VA doesn't have to pick up the tab for "service connected disabilities" too.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ll be brief. Go.