At least one branch of the military is already turning away recruits after President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to craft new policies barring transgender service members. An executive order ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Navy order aligns with a Feb. 26 Defense Department memo that instructed transgender service members to separate from the ...

The Department of the Navy is offering transgender sailors and Marines the option to voluntarily separate from the service by March 28. Otherwise, they risk being booted from the service — cutting the ...

As the U.S. military prepares to celebrate the legacy of the Army with a massive parade in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, some transgender service members are grappling with an involuntary end to their ...

Newswise — LOS ANGELES (June 19, 2024) -- He’s a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman who has provided medical care to troops in the clinic and to troops fresh off the combat field. The landscape may change, ...

Growing up in San Diego with Mexican immigrant parents, Lieutenant Martinez never imagined he would one day end up working at the Pentagon. He was recruited while he was still in high school, he said.

Paula M. Neira, center, founder of the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health, co-sponsored the USNS Harvey Milk and christened the ship in 2021 in San Diego. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of ...

WASHINGTON — The Navy is offering voluntary honorable discharges to transgender sailors and Marines who self-identify by March 28 or risk being involuntarily separated, according to a memo released ...

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer appeared to break with President Donald Trump on Thursday over the President's intention to ban transgender individuals from serving in the US military. Asked about ...

-- Kristin Beck, a transgender former U.S. Navy SEAL, said that it was "awesome" that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the military should "continually" review its policy towards the transgender ...