Maine governor told Trump "see you in court" after he publicly threatened her due to grand total of two trans girls on high school sports teams. Maine is being "investigated" by six federal agencies. They have had federal funding for state projects cut off. Trump told her he is federal government. L'etat, c'est moi.
Judge Forced to Pause Trial Because DOJ Lawyers Are so Unprepared Justice Department lawyers had not read any of the three reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited in his ban on transgender military service members. A federal judge stopped a hearing about Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service members in its tracks Wednesday, calling for a recess from proceedings to invite the Department of Justice’s lawyer to actually read up on the policy they were defending. U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes had criticized the department’s lawyer for not having read three reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited in his policy banning transgender members of the military, according to Politico’s senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney, who posted several updates on the hearing on X. An internal memo issued by the Pentagon in February “disqualified” transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military. “Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are disqualified from military service,” the memo said, also banning individuals who had a “history of cross-sex hormone therapy or a history of sex reassignment or genital reconstruction surgery as treatment for gender dysphoria or in pursuit of a sex transition.” Reyes claimed that Hegseth’s policy banning transgender service members had “egregiously misquoted” the three reports it cited, and she couldn’t believe that the Justice Department’s lawyer hadn’t bothered to actually read them. Reyes requested that the court take a 30-minute break, and asked the department’s lawyer to review the reports and compare how they’d been misquoted by Hegseth in his policy. Then, they could tell her whether they believe she could reasonably rely on Hegseth’s interpretation of those reports. When the court resumed, Reyes pointed out that one study Hegseth had relied on to demonstrate that transgender service members hurt troop readiness and weaken their unit, actually concluded the exact opposite. The study found that transgender service members were more deployable, and experienced fewer lapses in their service than those diagnosed with depression, who were not automatically excluded from service. But that wasn’t all. As Reyes went through each of the findings cited in the ban, she found that “virtually every” one contradicted support for Hegseth’s policy, according to Cheney. Reyes asked the DOJ lawyer why she should defer to Hegseth’s blatant “cherrypicking” and providing “misleading” analysis. In a brief memo filed in court on February 10, Hegseth directed the military to stop integrating new recruits “with a history of gender dysphoria” and to pause “planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition.” The policy wouldn’t affect the estimated 9,000 to 14,000 transgender individuals currently serving the military. Later in February, as part of a complaint the Pentagon filed against Reyes, accusing her of “misconduct,” indicating potential bias in the case, an internal Pentagon memo was revealed that pushed the ban even further. https://newrepublic.com/post/192657/judge-military-trans-ban-trial-lawyers-incompetence
Who's Making News for Sex Crimes Involving Children I wonder if Jonnyboy wants me to break down these graphs for him too
Trump is going to use this article to push for legalizing pedophilia because laws unfairly target republicans.
People worried San Francisco Pride had become too corporate. Guess we can worry less now. Five corporations pulled support from Pride. They are afraid of retaliation by Trump. Corporations are not allies. I recall Cleve Jones saying corporate diversity is saying you can be your authentic self while you pillage the planet.
The 90s and 00s activist capitalism era was a mistake and I feel bad for ever having bought into it. At least new generations are also learning the lesson that capitalists are inherently cowardly.
DOGE has access to every trans person’s transition data via social security. If you changed your name with the SSA as part of your paperwork transition (which is normal), your data is now exposed to DOGE. That means they can begin compiling (for example) a target list. https://genderideology.org/?fbclid=...Ztv4RAGUDA61u5zjyQ_aem_xa_8Xr0ZncDFXpcaV5GKUA Luckily, I’m very lazy and never got around to transitioning my paperwork federally. My transition is sealed in the county records but not with the SSA. But most of my friends did, and now they can be targeted by the Dark MAGA goons.
