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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits. One Air Force sergeant said he was “betrayed and devastated” by the move.

The move means that transgender service members will now be faced with the choice of either taking a lump-sum separation payment offered to junior troops or be removed from the service.

An Air Force spokesperson told The Associated Press that “although service members with 15 to 18 years of honorable service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions to policy were approved.” About a dozen service members had been “prematurely notified” that they would be able to retire before that decision was reversed, according to the spokesperson who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal Air Force policy.

A memo issued Monday announcing the new policy, which was reviewed by the AP, said that the choice to deny retirement benefits was made “after careful consideration of the individual applications.”

All transgender members of the Air Force are being separated from the service under the Trump administration’s policies.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 217 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

The cruelty is the point.

Fuck every idiot who voted for this.

There is a Hell and we are living in it.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 69 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This isn't just cruelty

You don't want trans people actively in your military when the insurrection starts.

The expediency here should make it clear how fast paced the plans are.

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Well trump and screw have to do everything and kick off any plans before the term limit hits. If things haven't been started by then it becomes a lot more complicated.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I hope I live long enough to see every idiot who enabled this shit standing in front of Nuremberg 2

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

I agree that all guilty of treason. Not to mention really shitty people.

Imagine having 18 years in, just about to retire with full pension and this happens. Talk about radicalized.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Has anybody in Nuremberg 1 been punished for crimes against their own population?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

He was punished later.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Honestly same, but there's plenty enough of them for both

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

it's not just cruelty it's the subtle (hell at this point not so subtle) hints that "we need to surround ourselves with loyalists to OUR cause, not the country" Because when the squads start rolling out to not just detain people but to line them up on the street probably not the best idea to have transgender/gay/people of color on the other side of the trigger.

the shit is coming, and soon. ICE is now recruiting teens as an obvious scapegoat for one slipped trigger finger.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

They're still building hell

We don't have to live in it

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What if we were unknowingly in hell?

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Then you have nothing to lose.

Grab a Molotov

Probably head to the Winchester and wait for it all to blow over