They are treated like something one would get on the bottom of their boot after walking through the cow lot. This is a return to how power corrupts by those who lead this nation. The only Indian is a dead Indian. All Japanese American citizens were moved to internment camps, their businesses confiscated. Or how those of color were infected with syphilis used in god awful experiments. Maybe we should return to imprison all who are suspected of being transgender to insane asylums. Give them lobotomies, electric shock treatments, and over dose them on mind destroying LSD and other experimental drugs? If one hasn't studied history they missed all the good stuff.
All those treaties made with the Indians and then broke as it suited those in government? I guess contracts and obligations to those who serve in the military aren't worth the paper they are printed on. The Air Force said Thursday 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.
All transgender members are being separated from the Air Force under the Trump administration's policies
included reverting their service records back to their birth gender, "dehumanizing" or "open cruelty."
https://www.newser.com/story/373198/transgender-group-wont-g...
Never underestimate the depravity or what those in power may use as justification of cleansing the human genome when one doesn't match up to the perfect male and female they formulated in their own twisted mind. The irony is not lost as they consider me and all those like me as insane, unfit to be called human. Don't bother trying to enlighten Trump, Musk, and all those like them, Transgender will always be a part of humanity. Hitler couldn't erase us. History will prove Trump failed also.
They might be coming after me and all those like me who may or may not be listed in the VA system. They will want to flush all transgender. mot only present but also past, from the military records unless the Supreme Court intervenes. I may be fear mongering? This administration has a full on dumb ass cleansing and eraser approach of transgender anything without any scientific or medical understanding why those like me are born. Here's a clue, it isn't a choice, it's designed in the embryo before birth. Exterminate every single transgender on this Space Ship we call Earth and new ones will be born tomorrow.
This mortal life, they may take. My soul they will never take, it belongs to God and Him alone. Matthew 26:41
Barbie Jean Lee
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Unless SCOTUS intevenes
IMHO, there is little chance of that with its 6:3 fundamentalist GQP majority. They want to dismantle what's left of the Voting rights act next term.
I would not put it past the MAGA/Q-Anon/Project 2025 faithful to try to take the vote away from women and people of colour. Look at that new 'Whites Only' town in Arkansas... and you will see where Trump and friends want to take the USA.
Stick in there people. Register to vote and keep checking that it has not been wiped off the register. If Trump holds the 2028 Elections then, unless his people have fixed it, the MAGA/USA First loonies will be gone. If he declares a state of emergency, he and Eyliner 'I'm a never Trumper' Vance can stay in power for a decade. Then, the USA will be a 4th world country.
Samantha
Blame the voters
Blame all those people who voted for all those conservatives at Trump's beck and call in the House/Senate, who are so blindly focused on some anti-mentality of all those who are not 'us'. Without them Trump would not have free rein. I mean some of those even complained about there being trans-coverage in health insurance for some idiotic reason.
Just like most Trump/right wing voters these days, it all winds up as an own-goal. Remember, when you play the denial-to-other games, don't be sure somehow that mentality will not have a follow through and they come and try to take your rights away from you.
I have already decided that if things don't change by the time I hit retirement then I will probably move to Canada to retire. I am fortunate enough to have saved my pennies and will likely be able to show I am not a burden to Canada. As far as I can tell, things are better up there but who knows, time will tell.
On the more positive front, based on some feelers my partner's niece has felt out to the department of health in NYC, they only provide the gender of record when asked for and not any past one. I also have the advantage that my original passport is correct as I never got one pre-op, so I will be consistent when I try to get a new one as I will also use the old one as proof of citizenship. I will call myself to said agency to see if the above information reported is consistent messaging from that office. But for now that seems encouraging.
However, I suspect that the bad news is that if you had a passport with your original gender in the past then don't risk trying it modified or renewed until the political thing is resolved one way or another.
In any case, it is unfortunate for sisters who had to travel overseas to get their GCS may have this as an unfortunate side effect.