This is primarily happening in the Navy and Marines.
The President is Commander in Chief and his subordinate, the Secretary of War, are the commanders of these boards and their refusal to obey orders here should get them thrown in the brig.
That's how the Left operates; just ignore anything they don't like and disobey orders, and try to wait it out.
This article quotes the New York Times, who is no doubt delighted at this development:
But just steps from the auditorium where Mr. Hegseth spoke, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, boards assigned to carry out those orders were doing the opposite. Instead of firing trans Marines, the boards were voting to keep them.
The same was happening in the Navy: Boards given strict rules instructing them to force out sailors were rebelling and voting to let them stay.
It is not just a few outlying individuals. Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases.
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We need a Saturday Night Massacre now; Hegseth should fire all off the top commanders in the Navy and Marine Core (they don't deserve to be called corps - they are more like the remains after someone gobbled down the apple now). Heads must roll over this.
This is the same sort of thing the Deep State was doing in the first Trump Administration and now they are at it again. They were afraid for a while but apparently they are getting cocky because of the bogus poll numbers showing the Democrats will wind Congress and figuring this will then tie up the Administration so they can do whatever they want.
In point of fact there is no need for trannies in fatigues; the military is overstaffed now as it is. Part of the reason recruitment exploded is the Trump Administration got rid of the trannies, something the average fighting man found abhorrent; nobody wants to shower with a dude who wears women's clothes, no real man anyway. And the women don't either.
But these boards seem determined to keep them in the military and that is for purely political reasons. Every last board member needs to be busted down to swab.
Sorry, but just because one of the Village People was a sailor doesn't mean it's a good idea to put trans people in uniform. Let them play at being sailors if they want to wear a sailor's uniform