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6 May 2025 Compress Release
Media Contacts: [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC – SPARTA Pride has released the following utterance in response to the Supreme Court’s stay of the preliminary injunction on transgender service members: The Roberts Court’s choice staying the preliminary injunction will enable the Trump purge of transgender service members from the military to proceed. Transgender Americans contain served…
Sparta Pride Push Release 27 Feb 2025
“Transgender Americans possess served openly and honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces for nearly a decade. Thousands of transgender troops are currently serving, and are fully qualified for the positions in which they serve. No policy will ever erase transgender Americans’ contribution to history, warfighting, or military excellence. Transgender service members have a one-of-a-kind fighting…
SPARTA Response to Executive Order
SPARTA Pride stands as a beacon for gender nonconforming individuals who currently serve or possess served in the U.S. military. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit, independent of the Department of Defense (DoD), our mission is clear: to support, educate, and advocate. SPARTA Self-acceptance colla
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The lifting of the ban in 2000
The ban was lifted on 12 January 2000 after years of legal wrangling, in which the Ministry of Defence and several senior Armed Forces personnel fought hard to preserve it in place. The case was eventually won in September 1999 at the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that the ban broke the Human Rights Convention which safeguards the right to privacy.
Twenty-two years on, the Government has begun to craft some reparations. In 2021, the Ministry of Defence announced that veterans can reclaim medals that were confiscated, and the Minister for Defence People and Veterans made a personal statement of apology, but despite Ministers pledging ‘recognition and recompense’ for the thousands affected by years of illegal prohibition, little has been done to address the wider impacts of the ban.
Medal return
Before January 2000, LGBT+ personnel subjected to disciplinary action and dismissal from the military often had their medals taken from them and were denied the opportunity to acquire or recover medals through continued service.
On 16 February 2021, the UK Government and the Ministry of Defence a
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