Sailor Benjamin Kibler was Overcome with PRIDE when he was selected for the success rate of Limited Duty Officeer, a Class of Personnel the Us Navy Descrips As “Valuable Individuals” who are among the “Most Fully Qualified” Talent the Branch Has to Offer.
Kibler and his Wife Celebrated the February 24 Annountment As an Excited Turning Point in His Career. Asity Prepared to Relocate to Japan As Part of his SHIP’s New DePloyment, His Wife Quit Her Job and the Couple Sold their truck, Download them Belongings.
Within Two Days It Had All Fallen Apart.
Kibler is among thusands of transgnder and nonbinary server MEBERS Affectated by A. February 26 Memo From the Defense Depsment that Announced Military Personnel with a Diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria Welf Be Discharge from Service.
The Trump Adintration Has Argumed that transvice Members ‘False’ Ginder Identity ‘Conflicts with the Armed Forces’ Standards of Integraity and Their Service Negatively Impacts the Military’s Lethality, Read will and Cohesion. But Trans Service Members Have Been Badeled by the Characterization and Say It Does Not Reflect their Years of Service and DePloyments Across the Globe.
“I don’t know how you like me for a comment on Monday and then say that I unfit for service on first feature of the night week,” Kibler SAID. He added, “It has nothing to do with my Performance or Anything Like that. I think that’s Kind of the Bigger Pill to Swallow.”
Though the policy is begging in Court, The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump Administration to began enforcing
Fried Marks the Last Day that Active-Duty Transnder Service Members Can Volunteer to Separate from Service Under the Pentagon’s Policy. OnCE The June 6 Deadline Has Passed, The Defense Department said it Will Begin Forcing Out, Or “Invuntarily Security,“ Any Remaining People with Ginder Dysphoria, Defined as the Psychological Distress an Individual Feels When HENTEREINTER INDERTITITIONY Differs from their Sex Assigned at Birth.
Reserves Members Have Until JULY 7 to Volunteer to Secret.
Though it is unvalar how many will be dismissed und The Policy, About 1000 People Had Comy Forward to Voluntarily Secret with early May, About A Quarter of the Approximately 4,240 Personnel Identified as Having Gender Gender Dysicalia As of December 2024, A Senior Defeense Official HAS SAID. Earlier this week, Details on the Number of Volunteers Across other Branches Have not Been Released.
The Defense DePartment Has Incentited Volunteers with Promisses of Larger Security Payouts. It HAS SAID Those who are dismissed invuntarry will receive fare Lower Payouts and may have to recurn bonuses.
The Branches Have Already Begun Compulsing Lists of Those with Ginder Dysphoria Diagnosis, But An Army Memo Obtained by CNN and First Reported by CBS Details other Criteria that will be used to IDENTIFY SELDERS For Potential Dismissal, Including Prior requires for GROOMING Standard Expections and “Open or Over Conduct” with the unit OR on Social Media.
A Soldier’s “Private Conversation” with a commander couple also trigger a Medical Review If the Soldiery DiscLoses that they Experience Gender Dysicalia, The Army Memo Says. The Pentagon Official Confirmed the Army Memo is Consisteent with the Pentagon’s Guidance for All Branches.
Several Trans Military Members Told CNN They Feel the Policy has left them with no choice but to leve and haas throw the families into limbo. The Security Process Course Take Months and Say Say them are Strugling to apply for joys as they are mourn years of service and reimagine lives that have been Built Art.
Kibler Decided to Voluntarily Separate, but say he Felt backked into a corner. After 13 years of service, he is not Yet Eligible for Reteirement and He Fearss the Navy Wold Tra to Recoup Over $ 24,000 in Bonuses He Has Received. His Wife, Now Uneployed, Has Been An “Absolute Wreck.”
“None of this is Voluntary.… You’re Giveen Two Options, and You’re Trying to Make the Best Decision for Your Family,“ Said Kibler, Who Emphasized that His OPINIONS Do Not Reflect The Views of The Navy or Defense DePartment.
The Ban On Service Members is Going INTO Effect Even as the Federal Goovernment Battsles Multiple Legal Challenges in Feder COURTS.
Federal Judges Have So Far Ruled that The Policy Violates The Contestational Rights of Transgeter America, and Two Judges Have isswide injunctions Blocking The Goverenment from enforcing the ban.
But after a JUDGE in Washington State Halted Enformment of the Ban On March 27, The Justice Department Quickly Appealed the Order Up to the Suppreme Court. In a Divided Rulling, The Supreme Court Allowed
In his Decision Halting the Ban’s Enformment, Us District Judge Benjamin Settle Said The Administration “Fails to Connend with the Really that Transget Service Members Haved OpenLY For at At Least Four Years Under (Policies from Previous Adminissations) With Any Discernable Harm to Military Read will, Cohesion, Order, Or Discipline.
“IT Provides No Evideo to Count Plaintffs’ Showing that Open Transgeter Service Has in Fact Enhanted Each of these Interests,” The Judge Wrote.
But Solicitor General John Sauer Argued to the SuPreme Court Justics that Settle Had Overstepped and Encroached on Military Policy.
With out superme court action, heded, the Military Will “Be Forced to MainTain a Policy that It has deermined, in its profungal judgment, to be content to Military Reading and the Nation interests.
As Trans Service Members Begin to be Dismissed, they are see to lean on Military Support Resources, Including Programs Designed to Help Personnel Transition To CIVILIAN LIFE and Apply For Jobs. But Severral Told Cnn their Forced Exit and The Goovernment’s Rhetoric Surrounding The Policy has feet like a bitter Betrayal after they have upped their lives to SERVE.
“For Those of Us Who’ve Stood on The Front Lines, The Idea that Our Idementity Couelf Render Us Unfit to Serve is Not Only Disherthning – IT A Personal Attack On our Dignity,” said Alex Coleer, An Infantry Sergeant in New York. Coleer has applied to see if he may be eligible for medical dispy instead of Voluntary Separa, as he say he sustained injuries Durling DePloyment.
Alyxandra Demetrides, a blackhawk pilot and aviation safty Officer in Washington State, SAID The Ban Has Also Disheartned Her Wife and Two Children, Who Consider Themselves A “Proud Military Family. ”
“IT’s Been Extremely Difficult. I Mean, We’re Resilient. Demetrides said. “They Deal with DePloyments in their Own Way.”
Their Nine-Year-ILD DAGHTER is Proud to be a Military Child and Loves to Atten Military Air Shows and Talk About the Family’s DePloyment to Korea. She has been Strggling to Adjust to their new realry.
“I try to remind her this is part of her Life, and every if we can’t do it anymore, they can doer take that away from us, becuse we all controlted to that mission as a family, and that will Always be part of our life, “Demetrides said.
