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Image: Wikimedia Commons (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Madelyn Keech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Navy and Marine Corps separation boards are repeatedly voting to keep transgender service members despite Pentagon rules that leave them almost no choice but to recommend discharge, according to a new report.<\/h3>\n

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the policy in blunt terms during a September \u201cState of the Force\u201d address at Marine Corps Base Quantico.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals,\u201d Hegseth told the audience, describing the people he said had no place in the military under the Trump administration\u2019s push for higher standards and the end of woke ideology.<\/p>\n

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.@SECWAR \u201cIt\u2019s worth saying again so that the fake news understands it.<\/p>\n

We are no longer the woke department or the weak department\u2026 no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdoes, no wimps, no radicals\u2014JUST WARRIORS.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/6pGxRUK47r<\/p>\n

\u2014 DOW Rapid Response (@DOWResponse) September 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The boards were created to process remaining cases after President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order and Hegseth\u2019s guidance barred service by those with \u201cgender dysphoria\u201d or related treatments.<\/p>\n

Many of the roughly 4,200 openly transgender troops identified by the Pentagon accepted separation payments and left, but some stayed and demanded the peer-review process.<\/p>\n

The boards, staffed by everyday uniformed personnel and given instructions that any evidence of transgender status requires dismissal regardless of performance, have not followed orders in most Navy and Marine cases.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> found these boards voted to retain the member in nine of 12 proceedings.<\/p>\n

Outsiders, including spouses, are barred from the proceedings, and the Pentagon has not released official tallies.<\/p>\n

The figures came from interviews with participants and lawyers.<\/p>\n

New York Times military correspondent Dave Philipps described the process to CNN.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what\u2019s interesting is these boards are set up sort of like jury duty to pull every day Marines and sailors and have them apply the rules, and kick trans service members out. And these rules are written so narrowly that they\u2019re really left with no choice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf anyone has any sign of being transgender, even if they\u2019re a decorated war hero or a really needed highly-trained technician, the juries have no leeway. If transgender, then you must throw them out. But that\u2019s not what these boards are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Philipps continued, \u201cAll of a sudden, they are looking at these rules, realizing that they\u2019re given no choice, and then they\u2019ve been voting over and over \u2014 about three out of every four times \u2014 to keep these transgender soldiers and sailors and Marines in uniform, which is basically them quietly defying orders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what the boards are doing is saying, \u2018Look, we\u2019re being presented with someone who is good at their job, has never broken any rules, and in some cases, is a highly-valued member of the military. And we\u2019re being told to throw them out,\u2019 and they\u2019re just saying, \u2018No.\u2019 In fact, in some cases, in the Marine Corps, I saw paperwork where they actually scratched out the instructions on their paperwork that said, \u2018You must discharge this person.\u2019 And instead they just voted to keep them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those votes are only recommendations. Branch secretaries appointed by the administration review them and can reverse the outcome.<\/p>\n

Philipps noted the pattern is not uniform.<\/p>\n

The Army, the first service to begin hearings, initially discharged nearly everyone, around 95 percent or higher, though more retention recommendations have appeared later.<\/p>\n

Air Force boards have \u201coverwhelmingly\u201d voted for separation in the known cases reviewed so far.<\/p>\n

One retained Marine, Staff Sgt. Damien Contreras, a supply and logistics specialist with three overseas deployments and a decade of service, told the Times that board members were simply \u201cwar fighters looking at war fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked at first, but when you come down to it, it makes sense,\u201d Sergeant Contreras told the NYT. \u201cYou have war fighters looking at war fighters,\u201d he said. \u201cThey see I\u2019ve always done my job, I\u2019ve deployed, I\u2019ve mentored other Marines, followed the rules. They say, \u2018Hey, this is a good Marine, why wouldn\u2019t we retain him?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The administration has already limited the boards\u2019 independence. An October 2025 Pentagon memo obtained by the Associated Press<\/a> allows commanders to override a board\u2019s recommendation to retain a transgender member, breaking with longstanding practice that boards act independently.<\/p>\n

Service members appearing before boards have also been required to meet uniform and grooming standards corresponding to their sex assigned at birth, and refusal can be held against them.<\/p>\n

About a quarter of the identified transgender troops took voluntary separation payments rather than face the process.<\/p>\n

Legal challenges to the transgender troop ban continue, but the Supreme Court has allowed it to remain in effect while litigation proceeds.<\/p>\n

The post Military Boards Are Quietly Defying Hegseth\u2019s Transgender Ban Orders by Voting to Keep Gender-Confused Troops in Uniform<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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