Posted on 11/15/2025 1:04:12 PM PST by Salman
WASHINGTON — A group of 17 transgender members of the Air Force are suing the U.S. government over what they say is the military’s unlawful revocation of their early retirement pensions and benefits.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court Monday, comes several months after the Air Force confirmed that it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits.
It is just the latest in a series of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s policies that have sought to push transgender troops out of the military since the early days of his second term. The U.S. Supreme Court in May, however, allowed the ban on trans troops to be enforced while legal challenges proceed.
According to GLAD Law, one of the advocacy groups that helped bring the lawsuit, service members affected by the policy will now face a loss of up to $2 million owed for their service over the course of their lifetimes in addition to the loss of health insurance benefits.
Michael Haley, a staff attorney with the group, said the revocation of the early retirement benefits was part of “the general cruelty in attacking transgender people.” He noted that many of the plaintiffs had received orders allowing their retirements and that some had even begun the process of getting out of the military.
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As much as I hate to say this, I believe they have a case. They did their time and they served. What they served I’ll never know but they served.
Dear God, how many are there, and how in hell were they admitted to the force to begin with? Sick.
Their rights are under the UCMJ.
If they didn’t get over 18 years, they get nothing.
They were allowed to enlist openly in 2016. What kind of retirement can they even possibly qualify for?
I have little regard for trannys. But inasmuch as the Air Force hired them , they should receive any and all benefits coming to them
Probably some that served as a normal and then decided to go trans.
The Air Force should be suing them for the cost of any surgeries and meds they received for their tranny treatments.
I don’t agree with transgender persons serving in the military. That being so I also believe if they did serve and met the terms of their recruitment agreement they are entitled to whatever other service members leaving service are due.
42% of them won’t make it to retirement.
I think you’re right. If there was no barrier to them serving, and they did the same grunt work as any non-trans person, then they shouldn’t be denied it.
Whether you’re opposed to LGBTQ+ people being involved anywhere in the military at all, this is a very basic principle of military service. If people are not dishonorably discharged, and they have served, and they’re now being actively encouraged to quit the service for no reason other than political optics and it’s especially poor if their pensions ever had any opt-in or salary sacrifice option.
It’s one thing to think they shouldn’t be serving on the front line, or on a ship/sub for months at a time, or in Special Forces where an all-male unit cohesion and morale imperative is a valid concern.
But a lot of the stuff the Forces do these days, even in combat operations, is work on bases and in back offices.
Also, if the pension had any opt-in or salary sacrifice option, there needs to be a very clear justification for taking that away from people who’ve served, especially if they’ve served in exactly the same ways as the men and women next to them who aren’t being pressured to quit the service and who aren’t going to lose their pensions.
Can't they just un-tr00n themselves?
However, if they were eligible, they should be retired.
Bill Clinton downsized to the point where my buddy got credit for 20 years after serving 19. He’ll always have a soft spot in his heart for that man. He was a republican.
Yeah, It was a RIF. We had them 33 years ago in the Army. Soldiers were being released with severance pay and no penalty for getting a bonus. It was just business for the Army. They had too many soldiers after the fall of the USSR.
Retrannyment
No
If you think about it, they’ve likely served the vast amount of time in the closet, so to speak, and didn’t make their autogynephilia known until just recently when it was allowed and encouraged by recent perverted administrations.
They should be credited time in good faith.
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