Summary

A federal judge harshly criticized Trump’s executive order banning transgender service members and restricting pronoun use, calling it “demeaning” and “biologically inaccurate.”

Judge Ana Reyes dismissed claims that pronoun use affects military readiness as “frankly ridiculous” and questioned the administration’s justification.

She also challenged government lawyers on the order’s vague condemnation of “radical gender ideology,” which they could not define.

The order, enforced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, halts gender-affirming care and trans recruitment. Multiple lawsuits argue it undermines military readiness and unfairly targets transgender troops.

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    “If you can get me an officer of the United States military to get on the stand and say that because of pronoun usage we are less prepared, I will be the first to buy you a box of cigars,” -Judge Reyes

    That is a damning statement. The US admin is a buffoon for even trying to defend this.

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      If these degenerates actually wanted to improve military readiness, they would put 100% of their effort into tackling our long-standing obesity crisis, chiefly by harshly regulating the sale and consumption of absolute shit and taking PE much more seriously in schools. Something like 70% of military age people are physically unfit for service, and the biggest reason is being out of shape. Solving that would improve our footing twentyfold over the [wholly imagined] amount that turning away women and the “morally weak” would do.

      But…

      1. Too many people make too much money selling absolute shit for food, and they pay their bribes like all special interests in this country.
      2. They are here to take hatchets to our foundations like the craven traitors they are, not actually fix anything.
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      This was my favorite part

      “If you can’t articulate what radical gender ideology means, how is the defense secretary going to know what it means?” Reyes asked.

      Lynch said he is “loathe to speculate “what Trump meant.

      “It’s not like I randomly picked you off the street,” Reyes fired back. “You’re the government’s representative here.”

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    How long before this judge is forcibly removed?