Selective Service System
American conscription system
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| January 31 2025 |
A memo was sent out to bar changes to gender markers on Social Security Administration records and enforce a binary interpretation of sex.
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| January 20 2025 | Presidential executive order issued enforcing a binary interpretation of sex and denying legal recognition of transgender and intersex individuals' gender identities. |
| January 20 2025 | Presidential executive order issued during the second Trump Administration denying legal recognition of transgender individuals' gender identities and enforcing a binary interpretation of sex. |
| 2024 | A bipartisan group of senators, including Rand Paul, Ron Wyden, and Cynthia Lummis, introduced legislation to end the military draft, calling for repeal of the Military Selective Service Act. |
| September 2021 | House of Representatives passed a version of the National Defense Authorization Act with an amendment to extend draft registration to all Americans between 18-25, though this amendment was later removed. |
| August 13 2020 | U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit unanimously overturned the federal district judge's opinion, holding that male-only military draft registration is constitutional. |
| March 2020 | A congressionally mandated commission recommended that women should be eligible for the draft. |
| 2019 | U.S. District Court in Southern Texas Judge Gray Miller ruled that exempting women from the male-only draft was unconstitutional, though this ruling was later reversed. |
| February 2019 | Federal district judge ruled the male-only military draft registry unconstitutional in the National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System case. |
| April 13 2017 | Donald M. Benton becomes the thirteenth Director of the Selective Service System, appointed by President Donald Trump. |
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