Transgender Veterans Group Threatens VA with Lawsuit over Yearslong Delay in Covering Surgeries Lawyers for the Transgender American Veterans Association said not providing the surgeries has "increased risk of physical...
Navy SEAL Under Investigation for Extremist Activity After Fighting Transgender Rights in California In a report released in December 2021, the Pentagon created new guidelines for activities that are banned for all service...
Veterans Who Are Younger, Female and LGBTQ Are Reporting More Mental Health Issues, Study Finds. The findings come at a time when both the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department are trying to expand...
Pentagon Launches New Review of Troop Discharges Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' On the 12th anniversary of the policy's repeal, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks announced a new effort to review...
Veterans Discharged Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and Earlier Bans Sue Pentagon to Correct Records While veterans who were discharged under the policy that banned gay and lesbian troops from serving openly can apply to have...
Base Air Show Featuring Scantily Clad Models Raises Questions About Justification for Drag Show Ban Instagram was flooded with pictures and videos of the models alongside sports cars, on the runway posing in front of cargo...
Veterans Groups Petition VA to Follow Anti-Discrimination Law 13 organizations filed a petition Thursday requesting VA regulations to enforce existing anti-discrimination law, arguing...
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Apologizes for a Previous Ban on LGBTQ+ People in the Military The apology came after an independent review estimated that hundreds, if not thousands, of veterans were dismissed or...
Should Transgender Men Register for the Draft? Lawmaker Says Yes 'If They Want to Be Treated Like Men' Rep. Tim Burchett has a novel proposal aimed at transgender Americans: Make transgender men register for the draft.
Most of the Military Not Tracking Number of Families Relocated Due to Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws In early 2022, state laws targeting LGBTQ+ communities began to spread across the U.S., leading the military services to...
VA Plans Outreach to Screen 3 Million More Veterans for Toxic Exposures The PACT Act requires the VA to attempt to screen all veterans enrolled in VA health care; to date, 4.8 million veterans have...
DoDEA America's Chief of Staff Arrested in Human Trafficking Sting Operation in Georgia Stephen Hovanic, 64, of Sharpsburg, Georgia, was arrested Nov. 15 in a sting that netted 25 additional suspects on charges...
Pentagon's AI Initiatives Accelerate Hard Decisions on Lethal Autonomous Weapons The Pentagon is intent on fielding multiple thousands of relatively inexpensive, expendable AI-enabled autonomous vehicles by...
Marines in Dress Blues Who Brawled with Civilians in Texas Bar District Not Facing Punishment Video posted on YouTube shows a confrontation that quickly escalated between a group of men and the uniformed Marines among...
Trump Hints at Expanded Role for the Military Within the US. A Legacy Law Gives Him Few Guardrails Experts in constitutional law and the military say the Insurrection Act gives presidents tremendous power with few restraints...