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Pentagon to restart gender-affirming care for transgender service members
The Hill ^ | 4/24/25 | Ellen Mitchell

Posted on 04/25/2025 10:29:59 AM PDT by DallasBiff

The Defense Department will resume providing gender-affirming care for service members, a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate transgender individuals from the U.S. military.

A Pentagon memo dated Monday and revealed Thursday states the department will restore surgical procedures and cross-sex hormone therapy to individuals, including dependents of troops, as first reported by Politico.

“Service members and all other covered beneficiaries 19 years of age or older may receive appropriate care for their diagnosis of [gender dysphoria], including mental health care and counseling and newly initiated or ongoing cross-sex hormone therapy,” according to the memo, signed by Stephen Ferrara, acting assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs. “Service members may also receive voice therapy and appropriate surgical procedures.”

The directive comes after two federal judges last month blocked the Pentagon’s transgender service member ban and a third temporarily blocked the military from separating two transgender Air Force members in a more limited ruling.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes of Washington, D.C., who first blocked the ban, said the administration’s policy is “soaked in animus.” The Pentagon is appealing that decision, and earlier Thursday the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to allow President Trump to enforce his ban.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dod; judicialcoup; losing; pentagon; pentagram; sexchange; sexchangeoperation; sexchangeoperations; sexchanges; snipsnip; transgender; transservicemembers; xyxx
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Who made these rogue judges the head of DOD policy. If I was Hegseth, I'd flip them the bird.
1 posted on 04/25/2025 10:29:59 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Frankenstein Monsters


2 posted on 04/25/2025 10:33:18 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

It is well within the CIC’s powers to release any officer from service.


3 posted on 04/25/2025 10:34:40 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: DallasBiff

Has this Judge Tooty Junior Wannabe checked with the American Taxpayers to see if they want THEIR TAXPAYER DOLLARS being wasted on the sicko bass turds with all of their mental issues.


4 posted on 04/25/2025 10:35:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Why are the DemonRATS so afraid of a Department of GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY?)
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To: DallasBiff

No surgery to mutilate their genitals is going to address the issues in their minds.


5 posted on 04/25/2025 10:37:57 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DallasBiff

“...providing gender-affirming care for service members...”


Don’t you love how the perverted have perverted the language? Wouldn’t gender-affirming care involve telling men pretending to be women that they are men and women pretending to be men that they are women?


6 posted on 04/25/2025 10:37:59 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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It is well within the CIC’s powers to release any officer from service.

Apparently not if some woke "judge" decides otherwise.

Why have an executive branch of government if any judge can overrule anything?

7 posted on 04/25/2025 10:39:21 AM PDT by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow. SAMARIA )
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To: DallasBiff

At this point, the Trump administration has been effectively hamstrung.

They can’t get anything done.

No arrests of the malignant malefactors that effected a coup last time he was elected, either.

They have effected the coup against his second term with lawfare.

About all he has been able to do is virtually shut down the border.

That will change when the next demonrat is elected.


8 posted on 04/25/2025 10:46:22 AM PDT by Westbrook (democRATs are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: DallasBiff

NOT how I want my tax money used. They need to save up their pennies and dimes if they want it.


9 posted on 04/25/2025 10:46:45 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: DallasBiff

Refer them to Dr. Kutchacockoff.


10 posted on 04/25/2025 10:53:48 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: DallasBiff

Judge Ana


11 posted on 04/25/2025 10:54:03 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The judges are ganging up against the American people.)
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To: hanamizu

I have often posted:
Gender affirming is celebrating the gender you are.
Gender denying is telling someone you are something else.
These people are all delusional, psychotic, brain-damaged, mentally ill, nutjobs.


12 posted on 04/25/2025 10:56:55 AM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: DallasBiff

They need to check mate rogue judges or admit defeat. Charge judges as complicit with the gangs, charge them with insurrection, defend them... there has to be a focused and concerted effort to take them down.

If need be ignore them and let them try to impeach Trump.


13 posted on 04/25/2025 10:57:13 AM PDT by marron
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To: DallasBiff

I thought the President was controlled the Pentagon.


14 posted on 04/25/2025 10:57:17 AM PDT by odawg
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To: marron

“defund them”... not defend them, typo...


15 posted on 04/25/2025 10:58:30 AM PDT by marron
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To: Fireone

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) classifies gender dysphoria as a mental condition.

It’s a mental illness.


16 posted on 04/25/2025 11:00:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla

Is it sound policy to have people suffering from mental illness in our armed forces...?


17 posted on 04/25/2025 11:01:17 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: DallasBiff

Ana Reyes, First Latina LGBTQ Judge Confirmed to DC District Court

Trans Uber Alles continues

18 posted on 04/25/2025 11:03:36 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: DallasBiff

Nooooooope!


19 posted on 04/25/2025 11:04:22 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: DallasBiff

These Blue America judges are holding Magenta America hostage.


20 posted on 04/25/2025 11:07:30 AM PDT by cowboyusa
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