03/02/25

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🚨 The Trump administration has escalated its efforts to purge transgender service members from the military, urging them to voluntarily separate by March 26—or face an uncertain future.

🪖 In a Saturday court filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Trump's DOJ lawyers admitted that the Department of Defense does not track service members by gender identity, meaning officials have no concrete data on how many trans troops are in the military.

👏🏽 An Iowa lawmaker took his Republican colleagues to task for voting to strip gender identity from the state's civil rights law.

Onwards and upwards,

Alex Cooper

Editor-in-chief, Advocate.com

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