The US Supreme Court decided on Tuesday that the Trump government could move forward with a ban on transgender military service members for now, lifting a lower court order to the policy after a judge decided that it was “exclusive policy that was not supported, dramatic and unfair in the face.”
The court did not explain his decision other than saying the order would end if the judge finally took the case of services and issued a decision that happened to him.
The litigation continued in the US appeal court for the ninth circuit.
Chief Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson indicated that they would refuse Trump’s request to live.
During Trump’s first term of office, the High Court took the same course, raising orders to the prohibition of transgender services members after being challenged. President Joe Biden ended the policy and thousands of military transgender members have provided active services over the past four years.
Pentagon estimates that more than 4,200 active service members have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria which is a military metric to track the number of transgender troops. The advocacy group has placed the actual number of trans services members is much higher, around 15,000.
The Supreme Court’s decision means that the military can begin to release transgender services and stop registering transgender people.
The US Supreme Court building was seen, December 3, 2024, in Washington.
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Trump’s government believes that the president is indebted to run the military and form troops, frame his policies as an exception of “medical”. Lawyer General John Sauer claims that gender dysforia presents problems for unit cohesion and death; Two federal judges found a little evidence to support the claim.
At the end of April, the Trump government made a new emergency request to immediately stay overnight the national order that prevented the prohibition of members of the open transgender military service.
The Judge of the Benjamin Settle Circuit Court, a candidate for George W. Bush, when issuing a preliminary order in this case on March 27, has written Trump’s administrative policy on transgender army will be the “prohibition of de facto slaughterhouses” to eradicate transgender services. “
This case was submitted by a group of seven transgender service members and one transgender person who wanted to register at the United States Marine Corps.
In a statement, advocates for seven members of the active assignment service that filed a lawsuit called the decision “a destroying blow.”
“By allowing this discriminatory prohibition to apply while our challenges continue, the trial has agreed to a policy that has nothing to do with military readiness and everything related to prejudice,” Lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign Foundation said that gave legal representatives for transgender troops.
“Transgender individuals meet the same standards and show the same values as all that serve. We remain firm in our belief that this prohibition violates the constitutional guarantee of the same protection and will eventually be destroyed,” said the foundation.
During the trip to Stuttgart, Germany, in February, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth was asked by a service member in African African why the “four extraordinary transgender soldiers” that he gave together for many years that Severn needed to be removed.
Hegseth replied: “This is a continuous review, with our feet advanced about readiness and application, readiness and application, which we have seen. And there are a number of scientific ways that you can explain the letter why there are complications with Trans Army in terms of readiness and placement.”