US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service
Washington (AP) – USA Air Force Thursday Transsexual Service Members It will separate them without an early retirement option between 15 and 18 years and instead of retirement aid.
Movement means that transsexual service members will now be facing the option to receive collective-complete separation payment or dismissed from the service.
“Although Air Force Spokesman Associated Press was allowed to apply for a policy exemption, none of the exceptions for politics have been approved,” said Associated Press. According to the spokesman speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the Internal Air Force policy, approximately one dozen service member was “early informed about that they could retire before this decision was reversed.
All transsexual members of the Air Force, Trump administration’s policies.
A note on Monday, which announced the new policy reviewed by Associated Press, said that the selection of rejection of retirement aid was “carefully evaluating individual applications”.
Movement comes after the Pentagon is allowed By the Supreme Court in early May To proceed with the prohibition of all transsexual troops serving in the army. Day later, the defense secretary Pete Hegseth He has currently announced a policy that will offer transsexual troops to a large, one -time separation payment and volunteer to involuntarily leave on the next date.
In May, a Pentagon official told reporters that he saw the policy to behave with his policy “dignity and respect for him.
However, in late July, transsexual associations Told to military.com That they have found all the separation process, including returning service records to birth gender, returning to “inhuman” or “open persecution ..
