Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has taken the first steps in removing the blight of transgenderism from the Armed Forces. In a terse, one-page memo to the upper echelons of the Pentagon and commanders of combatant commands worldwide, Hegseth ordered a pause in the accession of transgender people into the Armed Forces. Following directions in President Trump’s Executive Order “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,” Hegseth ordered, “Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria are paused, and all unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for Service members are paused.”
This clears the deck for what is coming next: the separation of transgender service members who are currently serving.
@SecDef would you follow them into combat! If not why are they still wearing the uniform? Imagine being a young enlisted serviceman finding out after a weekend of rest coming into work to find out that his commander now thinks he is a girl. Note that these are all officers!… pic.twitter.com/s2qVep6byd
— Robert Ledferd (@MotowarriorX) February 9, 2025
Other than the aesthetic, we are seeing a disturbing rise in a pattern of violent behavior among female-to-male transgenders that make one wonder why we’d want them around firearms and explosives. Other than the basic morale and discipline issues created by this nonsense, there is a very real problem with allowing anyone to join the military who requires specialized medical care. If you have braces, you can’t enlist. If you’ve been treated for ADHD within the last two years, you can’t enlist. And yet we do enlist people who have or get major surgery and are required to take a variety of controlled drugs when there is no way to ensure they will have the care they require once on military service.
The Executive Order is already the subject of several lawsuits by transgenders who are either in the military or trying to enlist. We can expect activist judges to do everything possible to slow down this much-needed purge, but I think, ultimately, Trump wins this battle.
READ THE MEMO
Hegseth Transgender Memo by streiff on Scribd
