Coast Guard Academy will finally confer Isaak Olson with the degree that he earned. “No school should force students to choose between becoming parents and earning their degrees. The Biden administration can and should act immediately to end this discriminatory policy at the Coast Guard Academy.” “The Coast Guard Academy’s ban on parenthood was adopted only after it began admitting women as cadets, and is rooted in harmful and outdated gender stereotypes. “We believe that bans on parenthood are wrong for every military service academy - and, in fact, have no place in any institution,” said Linda Morris, staff attorney with the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. The USCG Academy is run by the Department of Homeland Security. Air Force, Military, and Naval academies to ensure that cadets can preserve their parental rights.

As part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 signed by President Biden, the Department of Defense is actively revising similar policies at the U.S. The USCG Academy policy prohibiting cadets from being parents remains in effect. I look forward to the day that cadets are given the same rights as the rest of the service.” Cadets who are parents should be afforded the same opportunity to uphold the Coast Guard’s standards as their peers. “Becoming a parent shouldn’t be seen as a hardship. I’m thankful the academy has reached a settlement that recognizes my right to both,” said Isaak Olson, former cadet at the USCG Academy. “No one should ever have to choose between the honor of being a Coast Guard cadet and the honor of being a parent. As part of the settlement agreement, Olson will be awarded his degree as well as a written statement explaining that his cadet appointment was terminated solely due to the academy’s ban on cadet parents. In 2014, just weeks before he was expected to graduate, Isaak Olson, a cadet at the USCG Academy, was expelled from the academy and denied his completed bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and commission as an officer solely because his fiancée had given birth to their first child. Coast Guard (USCG) Academy on behalf of a former cadet challenging the academy’s policy of banning cadets from being parents. The American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Connecticut, and Yale Law School’s Veterans Legal Services Clinic have reached a settlement with the U.S. Gillian Branstetter, ACLU, Holden, ACLU Foundation of Connecticut, Johnson, Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic, Conn.

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