Seventeen transgender members of the Air Force who were discharged under the Trump administration’s transgender ban filed a lawsuit this week against the federal government for allegedly revoking their pensions and other benefits after their forced early retirement.

The lawsuit , dated November 10, involves members who served between 15 and 18 years in the Air Force, and asks for benefits they claim had been previously offered to them — but then were then told in August that decision had been reversed.

Glad Law, one of the advocacy groups that helped bring the lawsuit, writes :

These service members will loose [ sic ] $1–2 million in lifetime benefits, jeopardizing their families’ economic security. The action also strips the Airmen and their families of access to TRICARE, the mil

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