Defense Secretary Pete Hegses slandered transgender military members in a speech to a gathering of special forces operators on Tuesday, saying, “There’s no more man in a dress.
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Hegseth gave a keynote speech at the 2025 Special Operations Force in Tampa, Florida. He made inflammatory statements in the context of returning the “warrior spirit” to the army.
“It all starts and ends with warriors from training to battlefield,” Heggs said. Transcripts. “We leave nostalgia and weakness behind. There’s no more pronouns. There’s no more climate change obsession. There’s no more emergency vaccine orders. There’s no more man in the dress.
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He previously said the new army was “leaving it in a bad mood.”
Hegseth later reposted a clip of the remarks to X.
Hegseth made the comment on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court remained in a lower court order that prevented Hegseth and President Donald Trump from immediately leaving transgender service members from the military.
The ruling allows the Pentagon to begin discharge from hospitals for service members with a diagnosis of gender discomfort or history, and to refuse to enlist in transgender Americans. The unsigned order was approved 6-3, with three liberal justice in the court against it.
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The ban was approved by Executive Order 14183, which mandates exemptions for all transgender service members regardless of performance or qualifications and requires them to block future enlistment. order Commander Emily Schilling et al. v. USallowing the discharge to continue during the case, Commander Emily Schilling et al. v. USpasses the 9th Circuit appeal process.
According to its website, SOF Week is an annual conference for the international SOF community to learn, connect and admire its members, and the rally “shows cutting-edge capabilities and strategies to promote collaboration, innovation, excellence and denies modern special operations.”
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