Deny Who We Are or Harm Our Country? The Impossible Choice Facing Transgender Service Members Burying oneself and constantly being on guard not to let slip who you really are takes a mental and physical toll.
'Complete Purge': On-Paper Exemptions to Transgender Troop Ban Are Worthless, Advocates Say While the ability to get an exemption exists on paper, the criteria are so narrow and contradictory that, in practice...
In Lawsuit Filing, Pentagon Says Transgender Troops Can't Serve Unless They Meet a Warfighting Need The policy memo was included in the latest court filing in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order...
Justice Department Files Complaint Against Judge Weighing Challenge to Trump’s Transgender Troop Ban The Justice Department has filed a complaint accusing a federal judge in Washington of misconduct during hearings over...
Federal Judge Appears Inclined to Block Transgender Military Ban After 2 Days of Court Arguments A court hearing on the Trump administration's efforts to ban transgender people from the military has wrapped up for now...
'Unadulterated Animus': Judge Tears into Trump Administration at Hearing on Transgender Military Ban Judge Ana Reyes was hearing arguments as part of a lawsuit filed by two LGBTQ+ advocacy groups on behalf of several...
Transgender Recruits and Gender-Affirming Health Care Restricted by Hegseth Memo All military services must pause accepting recruits with histories of gender dysphoria and halt some gender-affirming health...
The VA Said It Would Cover Gender Affirmation Surgeries. Trans Vets Are Still Waiting. The life-and-death stakes of gender affirmation are closely tied to alarming numbers of suicides and suicidal ideation in the...
Transgender Troops, Confronting Shifting Policies of Acceptance, Just Want to Serve Transgender troops' right to serve -- perhaps even to fight and die for a nation they volunteered to defend -- has been...
How Trump's Moves to End Protections for Transgender People Could Hurt Veterans Health Care In one of his first moves in office last month, Trump signed an executive order that railed against "ideologues who deny the...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
