{"id":13991,"date":"2025-03-19T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T07:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/judge-blocks-policy-that-would-expel-transgender-troops\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T07:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T07:24:50","slug":"judge-blocks-policy-that-would-expel-transgender-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/judge-blocks-policy-that-would-expel-transgender-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Blocks Policy That Would Expel Transgender Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Tuesday from banning transgender people from serving in the military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a forcefully written opinion that rebuked the president\u2019s effort, U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes issued an injunction that allows trans troops to keep serving in the military, under rules that were established by the Biden administration, until their lawsuit against the Trump administration\u2019s ban is decided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe ban at bottom invokes derogatory language to target a vulnerable group in violation of the Fifth Amendment,\u201d Judge Reyes wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The government had argued that courts must defer to military judgment, but in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.276845\/gov.uscourts.dcd.276845.89.0.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">79-page opinion<\/a>, the judge said the government had thrown together a ban based on next-to-no evidence and that \u201cthe law does not demand that the Court rubber-stamp illogical judgments based on conjecture.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to the Defense Department, about 4,200 current service members, or about 0.2 percent of the military, are transgender. They include pilots, senior officers, nuclear technicians and Green Berets as well as rank-and-file soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. Despite their relatively small numbers, they have been a disproportionate focus of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In January, President Trump signed a caustically worded executive <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/prioritizing-military-excellence-and-readiness-2\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">order<\/a> saying that trans troops had afflicted the military with \u201cradical gender ideology,\u201d and that the \u201cadoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual\u2019s sex conflicts with a soldier\u2019s commitment to an honorable, truthful and disciplined lifestyle, even in one\u2019s personal life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In February, the Defense Department issued new policies that included the same language, and said that all trans troops, regardless of merit, would be forced out of the military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several service members immediately sued, saying the policy amounted to illegal discrimination that violated their Constitutional right to equal protection under the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The military was still finalizing its plans for putting the ban into effect, and had not yet forced any trans troops out, though it had encouraged them to \u201cvoluntarily separate,\u201d and had even offered payments to encourage their fast departure. The Navy had set a deadline of March 28 for trans sailors to request voluntary separation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the six weeks since Mr. Trump\u2019s executive order was signed, troops say, they have been forced to use the pronouns and conform to the grooming standards of their birth sex, and they have been denied medical care, passed over for assignments, sent home from deployments and put on administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTheir lives and careers are completely disrupted,\u201d said Shannon Minter, a lawyer who represents the service members and is the legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. \u201cThat\u2019s why getting them immediate relief is so important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Minter said Mr. Trump\u2019s executive order was so loaded with illegal ill will \u2014 known in the legal world as animus \u2014 toward a specific group of people that he felt it was unlikely to survive the scrutiny of a federal court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a contentious hearing on March 12, Judge Reyes, who was appointed by President Biden in 2023, spent a full day firing questions at Justice Department lawyers who were defending the policy, and she often showed frustration with their responses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The judge went line by line through reports on transgender service members that the government had cited when the ban was issued, noting that data were years out of date and that the Defense Department\u2019s conclusions were \u201ctotally, grossly misleading,\u201d because they \u201ccherry-picked one part, and misrepresented even that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The evidence presented was so thin, she said at one point, that the Defense Department might have well cited the latest Beyonc\u00e9 album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHow can you even say that \u2014 that a whole group of people lack humility?\u201d the judge said to the government\u2019s lawyers about one claimed justification for the ban. \u201cIt just makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the government lawyers, Jason Manion, argued in the hearing that federal law gives special leeway to the military to make decisions, and that it was not the court\u2019s job to decide on the merit of the Defense Department\u2019s evidence. \u201cAt the end of the day we are asking you to defer to military judgment,\u201d Mr. Manion said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou keep assuming that judgment is embedded in this,&#8221; the judge responded. \u201cThe only judgment in this case, far as I can tell,\u201d she said, is that the administration believed that transgender people lack integrity, humility, judgment and a warrior ethos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The judge repeatedly hinted that the apparent lack of evidence that trans troops in the ranks had any negative effect suggested that the administration\u2019s policy was driven by animus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Manion argued that showing that animus influenced the policy would not be enough to justify finding it illegal. Citing <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/26\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-trump-travel-ban.html\" title=\"\">a Supreme Court ruling<\/a> that upheld President Trump\u2019s 2017 executive order banning travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations, he said the order regarding trans troops would be illegal only if it were based solely on animus, and nothing else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cJust having evidence of animus,\u201d he said, \u201cdoesn\u2019t get over the hump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Trans troops have already prevailed in court once against a similar order. Early in his first term in office, President Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/26\/us\/politics\/trump-transgender-military.html\" title=\"\">announced a transgender ban on Twitter<\/a>, but the policy was quickly <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/21\/us\/transgender-ban-military.html\" title=\"\">blocked<\/a> by two federal judges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The resulting injunction remained in place for two years, until a 2019 ruling by the Supreme Court <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/22\/us\/politics\/transgender-ban-military-supreme-court.html\" title=\"\">allowed a reconfigured ban<\/a> to take effect while the court considered the constitutionality of the policy. The case was dropped after President Joe Biden rescinded Mr. Trump\u2019s ban in 2021, leaving unsettled the question of whether a ban on transgender service members would be constitutional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration\u2019s latest effort is a remarkable departure from a 77-year trend in the military toward welcoming an increasingly diverse variety of Americans. Over that time, it was generally the White House that was pushing for more inclusion, and the military that was resisting. Now the roles have flipped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Military leaders have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/military\/full-page-ad-features-bipartisan-opposition-to-trumps-transgender-ban\/article_dc9eca7e-b194-5993-aae3-ae185f421a9d.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly opposed<\/a> the transgender ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The transgender order is part of a sweeping effort to roll back diversity efforts in the military, efforts that the Trump administration sees as counterproductive. The rollback has included firing some top military leaders, ending recognition of Gay Pride and Black History months, and purging content mentioning diversity and inclusion efforts from Defense Department websites \u2014 even <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">removing a photo of the B-29 bomber<\/a> that dropped the first atomic bomb, presumably because its name, Enola Gay, was flagged in a search for words the department wanted to scrub.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This week the Department of Veterans Affairs <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/17\/health\/veterans-transgender-health-care.html\" title=\"\">announced<\/a> it would end gender affirming care for trans veterans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf veterans want to attempt to change their sex, they can do so on their own dime,\u201d Doug Collins, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Though the new injunction has spared trans service members from dismissal for now, many say it will be difficult to go on with their careers as if nothing had happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sgt. First Class Julia Becraft, assigned to an Army armor battalion in Texas, was slated to be promoted to platoon leader this coming July, but since the ban was announced, the promotion has been put on hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She was so distraught over the president\u2019s order that she decided to take vacation time to focus on her mental health, and has been attending therapy sessions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEveryone in my unit has been really supportive, but my world has been turned upside down,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sergeant Becraft has served in the Army for 14 years, deployed to Afghanistan three times, and been awarded a Bronze Star. Now she faces being forced out of the service with no retirement benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even if she is ultimately allowed to stay, she said, the actions of the president have her wondering whether she can still commit to serving her country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s not just because they came after me and want me out,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a culmination of all the other things they are doing: take down the D.E.I. efforts, firing of all these great leaders for no reason. I wish I could stay strong and fight, but, honestly, I\u2019m just scared.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/18\/us\/transgender-troops-military-injunction.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Tuesday from banning transgender people from serving in the military. 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