Any transgender person not grateful to be discharged from the military of a fascist government is deeply confused.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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This doesn’t appear to be about policy—it looks like pure prejudice. One key point: Trump has shown repeated interest in reshaping the military with only loyalists. Banning trans people fits that pattern, not because of readiness or cost, but because they’re less likely to pledge blind loyalty to him personally. It’s part of a broader authoritarian playbook—gradual control, step by step, aiming for a Putin-style grip. He believes controlling the military could help him hold onto power.
He believes controlling the military could help him hold onto power.
Unfortunately he's not wrong.
Putin, like many dictatorship purposely weakens thier military so they can enact uprising against them.
*can’t
But have a strong, brutal, militarized police force and an easily manipulated ( by those with money) legal system.
Waste of 1000 troops
That's money we're not getting back
It's expensive to train troops
America lost 1,000 troops today, self-inflicted loss
Using medical data to identify and target Americans.
A big fat ugly check ✅
They're doing it to trans people and autistic people. This is dangerous stuff. It's time to fight the Nazis again.
Oh shit, yo trans peeps getting chopped from the military - assemble into a modernized and trans version of the Sacred Band of Thebes?! We could use a well regulated militia to mop up some Agent Orange right about now...
Edit: THE SACRED BAND OF T's!!
after trans and it will be every other lgbtq+, and many of them are in the closet still.
and give others 30 days to self-identify,
Bro's too wasted to realize how many active service members want an out with an honorable discharge on any given day...
Almost always the junior enlisted who just signed up to pay for college and VA home loan.
That's not even the ones who just hate trump specifically and take the out as a protest thing.
Literally everyone I knew on a first contract would have put their hand up for this shit.
E-3s be like “we are all trans on this blessed day”
You think folks will try and pull a Corporal Klinger?
(Obligatory cross dressing and being trans aren't the same, but it's a 50 year old reference)
It's not even that:
Self-identity
They just got to say it...
I'll say something: I would rather have been born trans than obey one order from a maga loyalist.
Pretty sure that every trans person is born that way, unless they somehow fucked up with the gay bomb and made the trans bomb.
Great now I'm just trying to figure out the combat use of a trans bomb. I guess depending on the religion or culture of the group it could fuck with them psychologically, but at that point just spike their water supply with drugs.
Klinger didn't know he was doing it wrong.
Good thing the U.S. Military is running like a well oiled machine.
Off topic: Are we done soaking the 2/F18s? They be will be shining like new.
all that gains from recruitment in recent years will be undone.
MAGAts are so insecure. Pathetic.
And another last straw today yet again! OMG will they stop?