The Pentagon is looking through protected medical records to find transgender military members who are still serving despite the Trump administration’s ban, according to a report from the Federal News Network.
Sources told Federal News Network that commanders have gotten notices that members of their units are violating Pentagon policy, and to start the separation process. The military, the sources said, is using MHS Genesis, is the Department of Defense’s electronic health records system, to identify trans service members.
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An internal Air Force email sent July 31 and seen by Federal News Network shows the Office of the Secretary of Defense identified troops “who may have a current diagnosis or history of or exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria in their electronic healthcare record.”
SPARTA Pride said it received and corroborated “numerous reports from across the Department of Defense (DoD) describing a coordinated effort to accelerate involuntary separations outside typical procedures.”
These include “verbal directives to avoid written accountability, unprecedented use of military medical systems to identify individuals, pressure on healthcare providers to participate despite serious ethical and privacy concerns, and undue influence on commanders contrary to established policies,” SPARTA said.
The Defense Department, the Defense Health Agency and military services declined to answer questions from Federal News Network.
“The military was my life; it was my everything. I gave my entire self to my job and to my country, and I was serious about my career,” one sailor said to Federal News Network. “They’re about to completely upend my life and my career, and I’m not prepared for that.”
Multiple lawsuits are currently fighting the ban on transgender troops, with the federal government recently asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether it is unconstitutional.
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