The policy of the Trump government is based on a basis of lies: millions of foreign criminal and mentally ill Flock illegally across our borders. Doctors break off babies After they were born. Tariff The costs will not increase For American consumers. American taxpayers Buy condoms For Hamas. Transgender service members undermine the armed forces.
Based on this last fiction, the Ministry of Defense a ban on the transgender troops terminated on Wednesday Executive order Exhibited by President Trump in January.
“It indicates the military to identify all transgender service members, and then indicate that all of them are used in separation procedures” sue to block the guideline on behalf of six transgender service members. The plaintiffs say that politics violates the same protective guarantees of the constitution.
Although some have read the ban on making some exceptions, Levi said that this is not the case.
“It is expressly said that everyone has to serve on their birth,” she said. “You can't be transgender in the military.”
Say the SGT. Now Cole, who is one of the plaintiffs, has asked the courts to end the transgender ban, numerous medals for heroic deeds and meritorious services.
She was used as a shooter in the mountains of Eastafghanistan, the Baltic States and South Korea. Even during her transition, she never missed a training day.
“We are here, we serve honorably, we meet the standards and we just want to continue to serve,” she told me.
Cole said she planned to leave the army to change at some point The military would study whether transgender troops could serve effectively. In the strength of the determination of this study that the members of the transgender service had no negative effects on the military mission, the then defense secretary Ash Carter was A ban canceled on transgender troops in 2016.
“Although relatively few numerous, we talk about talented and trained Americans who serve their country with honor and award,” said Carter. “We invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to train and develop everyone, and we would like to take the opportunity to keep people whose talent we have invested and who have proven themselves.”
Since then, the members of the Transgender Service have been treated in a particularly gruesome political game like Pingpong balls. Trump tried to ban her Soon after taking office in 2017. His guidelines brought back together in various courts until President Biden took office in 2021 and Reverse course.
And now we're again. Trump is back in office, and his administration, led by the licked billionaire Elon Musk, appears brightly to join the joining As much misery as possible as the federal government has happily.
Trump's reason for the ban is as wrong and insulting as His edict that there are only two genders.
“In addition to the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved,” Trump wrote in his executive regulation, “the assumption of a gender -specific identity, which is compatible with the sex conflicts of an individual for an honorable, truthful and disciplined lifestyle. not with the humility and selflessness that a service has requested.
The US district court judge Ana Reyes, a Biden representative in Washington, DC, Didn't have it.
“To name a whole group of people who lies, dishonest people who have undisciplined, unquestionable and no integrity – how is it different from showing an animus?” She asked a lawyer of the Ministry of Justice during a recent hearing. ((The Supreme Court decided repeats that laws are based exclusively on animus – bias, aversion or disgrace of people just because they are, they do not say goodbye.)
Reyes is expected to rule after a hearing for March 12. A. Second, similar request The guideline of the anti-transmission was legally submitted in Seattle on behalf of seven other Lambda service members. Several legal challenges for such guidelines are not unusual. The problem should end in front of the Supreme Court.
Nobody knows how many transgender people serve. A 2014 study The Williams Institute of UCLA set the number of transgender people in active service or in the National Guard or the reserve cips. A border study 2016 Commissioned by the Department of Defense estimated that around 1,300 to 6,600 transgender service members were in the active service, from around 800 to 4,200 in the reserves. At least 18 countries, Including Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Canada and Australia, enable transgender people to serve openly.
Regardless of the actual number here in the United States, it is negligible if you consider that the total force comprises around two million soldiers.
“You and I agree that the greatest combat power that world history has ever seen is in no way affected by less than 1 percent of the soldiers who use another pronoun than others. Would you agree? ” Asked judge Reyes Ministry of Justice Jason Lynch.
“No, your honor,” replied Lynch. “I can't agree with that.”
SGT. Cole, who paid her own transition, is currently stationed in Los Angeles and teaches Rotc students of the UCLA tactics and leadership and prepares them to become junior lieutenants. She hopes to retire in 2027 and move to Colorado to work as a climbing guide.
When she is thrown out of the army before she has completed her 20 years of service, she loses her monthly pension of $ 3,500. Thank you for your service, Sgt. Cole!
In general, she does not discuss her gender identity or her role in the lawsuit, and even some of her friends have no idea that she is trans.
“I am proud of my service and ultimately I just want to continue my job,” said Cole. “I don't want to be a symbol. I just want to do my job and exist. “
That is so little to ask. Doesn't this country owe her that much?
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