Destroy our freedoms!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See you in Trump's gulag

No lesbians nor gays?

Regardless of unique expertise, abilities, nor qualifications (IT, language knowledge, contact knowledge, etc.).

How exactly does this ruling make the country safer???

brace yourselves for a Nation that you do not recognize as America.

since both parties are the same, there's no point voting, Hillary's emails, etc.

Really pisses me off too!!!! Hardly ever mention TURTLEFACE!!! What the fuck is wrong with them?

Would be my guess.

who bad mouthed my candidate so much that others decided not to vote at all and I will NEVER forgive them.

In the white house would not fight for his country because his daddy had a doctor lie that he had bone spurs. These people have put their lives on the line and they get thrown out.

The armed services accepts men. The armed services accepts women. The armed services places men in combat situations. The armed services places women in combat situations. What's the difference?

I would be concerned if someone was using the armed services just to have them pay for the surgery and then they skip out. That wouldn't be right. However if a person already made the transformation, why bother?

would be a housing issue. Real or perceived.

trump supporters turned out to vote for trump to get rulings like this

And I want their names and faces published to remind my children’s children what it was like to live under male authorism and racism. And the men who held those draconian values. Let them be remembered as Hitler is remembered.

The military bans people with medical dependencies. For example, diabetes, even if well controlled. Even allergies can result in a ban.

This ban only applies to transgender people while dependent on hormones (e.g., testosterone or estrogen).

One the transition is complete, the ban does not apply.

We don't need to alarm people unnecessarily. Get their procedures complete, and go forward.

But I don't really know.

If it's a lifetime medical treatment (esp injections), it would be a deal breaker, same as any chronic medical condition.

I know one guy that had very minor arthritis and when he started to have to get monthly injections, he ended up with a medical discharge.

Again, assuming you are correct, it would be odd to carve this kind of injection out from the general rule, if the goal is equal treatment.

Hormonal medications are usually life long.

Basically it's the same thing....variation of a theme

But I understand (from reading Wikipedia, the extent of my knowledge here) that the drugs used for transitioning are MUCH stronger than birth control and are done by a weekly shot.

Maybe not; I would encourage someone more knowledgeable on the topic than me to come forward.

Anyway, I've read the briefs on the SCOTUS blogs/websites.

The chronic condition/drug dependency issue is what the opinion will turn on, legally.

Just being blunt, the SCOTUS will have to find that the public policy reasons grossly outweighs the military necessity/bright line rules.

It's a long shot (and would even be a long shot with Ruth Bader active on the Court). There's a case regarding whether it was discriminatory to just require men to register for the selective service (it is not) that had similar public policy reasoning that would probably have to be overturned -- which probably won't happen.

Anyway, don't get your hopes up.

aaargh

pack the court. this cannot continue for the foreseeable future.

as Constitutional?

Doesn’t it still have to be argued on a Constitutional level?

Am I just foolishly hanging onto some fallacy?

or is it a flying leap?

The Dawning of Gilead.

By now, you may have already heard the latest from our transgender military ban case, Karnoski v. Trump.

Just this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to short-circuit the normal appeals process and has rejected the Trump administration’s request; instead of prematurely ripping our case out of the lower courts, the Supreme Court agreed with us that the court of appeals should be allowed to rule on the constitutionality of the ban.

This means the fight continues.

But in a narrow 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court also granted the Trump administration’s request that it be allowed to implement its discriminatory ban while our challenge works its way through the courts.

Transgender people who are serving our country, or who wish to serve, deserve much better than this, and we won’t stop fighting for them.

You can count on it: This battle is far from over.

because the supreme court. Elections have consequences.

... especially everyone else.

Democrats shouted it from the rooftops for months.