US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service
US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service
US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34111067
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits. One Air Force sergeant said he was “betrayed and devastated” by the move.
The move means that transgender service members will now be faced with the choice of either taking a lump-sum separation payment offered to junior troops or be removed from the service.
An Air Force spokesperson told The Associated Press that “although service members with 15 to 18 years of honorable service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions to policy were approved.” About a dozen service members had been “prematurely notified” that they would be able to retire before that decision was reversed, according to the spokesperson who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal Air Force policy.
A memo issued Monday announcing the new policy, which was reviewed by the AP, said that the choice to deny retirement benefits was made “after careful consideration of the individual applications.”
All transgender members of the Air Force are being separated from the service under the Trump administration’s policies.
You know what always works out great for regimes?
Betraying their troops.
The vast majority of the troops are bigoted pieces of shit too, you think they care?
No? I think the trans troops that were betrayed will care, and I've seen reports that say this effects over 1000 troops.
They don't have to care about the minority affected to be impacted; it affects readiness, which will affect them.
Laws which cause people to leave due to feeling unsafe will require others to be brought in to fill their roles, who are in-turn coming from somewhere else.
It's not a crippling issue (for a military) by any means, but laws that fuck with the readiness of a base piss a lot of people off.
Definitely not saying any military is a font of diversity and acceptance, but their most important asset is their logistics so fucking with that will not win you a ton of friends there.