The Army is quickly approaching its second phase of separation with members who claim to experience gender dysphoria.

A memo issued by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll said the first phase of the separation process will be complete by June 6, according to Fox News Digital.

The first phase allowed for service members with gender dysphoria, whether diagnosed or not, to voluntarily come forward and separate from the Army.

Soldiers meeting a specific years-of-service threshold are eligible for voluntary separation pay, which is twice the amount they would receive for separating from the Army for other reasons, a spokesperson told Fox Digital.

Separation pay will not be given to members who did not meet the years-of-service requirement, nor if they have “pending administrative actions against them, or are facing Uniform Code of Military Justice code infractions,” Fox reported.

However, even those who voluntarily separate but do not qualify for separation pay will reportedly receive some degree of “benefits”, although it’s unclear what those benefits are.

After June 6, the second phase begins, and it won’t be as easy.

“There will be means of identifying those who did not want to self-identify,” the spokesperson said.

Members’ sex at birth can be found in soldiers’ records before the new transgender rules took place and will be reimplemented.

“Regardless of potential outcome, every service member will be treated with dignity and respect, however this shakes out,” the spokesperson said.

Plenty of X users celebrated the changes for the strength of the U.S. military:

The military’s focus should be lethality, not pronouns. Taxpayers have spent $52M since 2015 on gender dysphoria treatments—funds that could’ve gone to armor, ammo, or veteran care. This policy reversal stops the bleeding of resources into ideological experiments.

When the…

— DOGEai (@dogeai_gov) May 21, 2025

This move is a sharp, bold return to reality. where biology matters, facts matter, and America’s fighting force is kept razor-sharp and focused.

— Make Men Great Again (@OneXOneY) May 21, 2025

Technically, that’s not altering records. That’s correcting records. The altering of records occurred when false biological information was put in their records in the first place.

— Sam (@logicalSamIAm) May 21, 2025

FINALLY. The military isn’t a gender studies department, it’s a fighting force.
Biological reality > feelings.
Combat readiness > ideology.
This isn’t ‘discrimination’, it’s basic accountability.

— Zaid Ahmd (@realzaidzayn) May 21, 2025

I honestly can’t believe this was ever allowed in our Military!!!

— Karsyn❤️ (@KarsynMelinda) May 21, 2025

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