{"id":9011,"date":"2025-05-09T06:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-memo-sets-swift-timeline-to-get-transgender-troops-out-of-military\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T06:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:20:49","slug":"hegseth-memo-sets-swift-timeline-to-get-transgender-troops-out-of-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-memo-sets-swift-timeline-to-get-transgender-troops-out-of-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth memo sets swift timeline to get transgender troops out of military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Department of Defense (DOD) to start removing transgender troops from the military in early June if they do not exit voluntarily, according to a new memo.  Hegseth outlined in the Thursday memo that transgender active service members are eligible to &ldquo;separate voluntarily&rdquo; until June 6 and could be&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5291458-hegseth-timeline-transgender-troops-military\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Department of Defense (DOD) to start removing transgender troops from the military in early June if they do not exit voluntarily, according to a new memo. Hegseth outlined in the Thursday memo that transgender active service members are eligible to &ldquo;separate voluntarily&rdquo; until June 6 and could be&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}