A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Governor is celebrating a Supreme Court decision keeping people who are transitioning genders from serving in the Armed Forces as legal challenges proceed.
“The President has clear authority as Commander in Chief of the military to ensure good order and discipline,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said as he lauded the high court for having “halted the madness.”
A Donald Trump executive order from January said “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.” Several district courts blocked the ban, but the Supreme Court is allowing it to stay in place until courts decide the merit of suits over the policy.
DeSantis has been outspoken about his own conviction that transgender people shouldn’t serve.
“The military is using your tax dollars to pay for hormones and sex change operations for people in the military,” DeSantis said when running for President in 2023.
His campaign said that, if elected, he’d no longer allow “transgender personnel to serve in the military in their preferred sex.” He would also stop providing “taxpayer funds for sex change hormones and surgeries, which cause issues with readiness.”
Also when running for President, a reporter asked DeSantis what he would do if one of his children turned out to be gay or transgender.
“Well, my children are my children,” DeSantis told TIME. “We’ll leave that — we’ll leave that between my wife and I.”
DeSantis signed legislation in 2023 banning gender-affirming care, saying it was a move to “outlaw the mutilation of minors.”
SB 254 bans physicians from providing people under the age of 18 access to any “sex reassignment prescriptions or procedures,” but contains exemptions for minors born with a “medically verifiable genetic disorder of sexual development.”
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Material from The Associated Press was used in this report. Republished with permission.
13 comments
TruthBTold
May 6, 2025 at 3:57 pm
Hear, hear! Exactly.
Ohhh Rhonda, here she goes again!
May 6, 2025 at 4:16 pm
Here we go again. Rhonda trying to remain any sort of relevant in the fight for who’s the biggest fascist bigot. You already lost!
George
May 6, 2025 at 4:11 pm
Yet he wears those white boots…
ScienceBLVR
May 6, 2025 at 4:37 pm
Oh Ronnie, this song’s for you..
You keep lying when you oughta be truthin’
And you keep losin’ when you oughta not bet
You keep samin’ when you oughta be a-changin’
Now what’s right is right, but you ain’t been right yet
These boots are made for walkin’
And that’s just what they’ll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
Michael K
May 7, 2025 at 10:31 am
Astonishingly, many of these right-wing “flag-wavers” are taking perverse delight in denying basic American rights to people who have dedicated years of their lives in service to their country.
People like our governor and president do nothing to unite people – all they do is stoke division and give permission for hate to find safe harbor in the Republican party.
Oscar
May 8, 2025 at 9:01 pm
You do not have a right to serve in the military. It is not a social club. As for stoking division the authoritarian left has that down to a science with its neo-Marxist intersectionality, so quit posting your pointless nonsense propaganda. You seem to the one constantly posting how much you hate Trump, DeSantis and Republicans.
cheeseburger
May 8, 2025 at 9:10 pm
why do people care so much about trans people? do they supposedly have weird fantasies with them? just ignore them, they’re random people who have better things to do then yap about dumb culture wars.
Oscar
May 10, 2025 at 2:36 pm
In general I would be inclined to agree with you with the caveat that I ignore them hoping they will just go away. However, these mentally ill persons will not simply live their delusional lives. They insist on preferential treatment and demand others accept and acknowledgment their delusion. Furthermore their delusion adversely impacts those around them whether in the military, in women’s sports or elsewhere. Their mental illness and delusion is not just a culture war.
Michael K
May 9, 2025 at 10:19 am
Show me where, in the requirements to serve in any branch of the US military, it says a person cannot serve if they are LGBTQ. I’ve not found it.
There have always been, and always will be, LGBTQ people serving in the armed forces.
Oscar
May 10, 2025 at 2:31 pm
Michael K – As usual you are incorrect on everything. By definition anyone that is mentally ill – and anyone with gender dysphoria certainly is delusional – is unfit to serve in the military.
otoh
May 11, 2025 at 10:46 am
Nonsense! Effective treatment for gender dysphoria exists.
The military is spending 8 x more on viagra than it is on gender affirming care.
May 11, 2025 at 8:02 am
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FL Guy
May 11, 2025 at 4:21 pm
DeSantis and his ilk are shameful embarrassments to the state.
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