{"id":17765,"date":"2025-05-13T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17765"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:58:15","slug":"im-being-kicked-out-a-trans-military-commander-confronts-trumps-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17765","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Being Kicked Out\u2019: A Trans Military Commander Confronts Trump\u2019s Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/us\/politics\/trans-troops-pentagon-figures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Recent figures<\/a>&nbsp;from the Defense Department reported 4,240 \u2014 or 0.2 percent \u2014 of about 2 million service members have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Data from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/palmcenterlegacy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/14700-Transgender-Troops-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previous years<\/a>&nbsp;by advocacy groups has calculated the number to be much higher, at around 15,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/20\/donald-trump-inauguration-day-news-updates-analysis\/trump-repeals-transgender-troops-rule-00199577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unveiled the plan in an executive order<\/a>&nbsp;on inauguration day. The basis for the order, which Trump also enacted during his first term, is the argument that gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/05\/09\/trans-military-commander-confronts-trumps-ban-00339091\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/05\/09\/trans-military-commander-confronts-trumps-ban-00339091<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Recent figures from the Defense Department reported 4,240 \u2014 or 0.2 percent \u2014 of about 2 million service members have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Data from previous years by advocacy groups has calculated the number to be much higher, at around 15,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Trump unveiled the plan in an executive order on inauguration day. The basis for the order, which Trump also enacted during his first term, is the argument that gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/05\/09\/trans-military-commander-confronts-trumps-ban-00339091<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[86,919,259,403],"class_list":["post-17765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-discrimination","tag-lgbtq","tag-military","tag-trans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17766,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions\/17766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}