On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump's Trangender military ban could be enforced, while legal challenges would take place, effectively preventing transitors from serving in the military.
The 6-3 decision annulled a precept issued by the US Circuit Court, which prevented the policy.
In January, Trump signed the enforcement order titled “The importance of military excellence and readiness,” saying that transgender troops did not meet the required standard for the armed forces, and directed the Ministry of Defense to impose a ban.
“A man's claim that he is a woman, and his requirement that others respect this lie, are not in line with the humility and selflessness required from the service member,” he says in the executive order. Trump signed a similar procedure during his last term in 2017, which President Joe Biden returned four years later.
A decision United States v. Shilling There is a solution of two other cases that also deal with the ban: Talbott v. US and Ireland v. Hegset, In January, GLBTQ legal lawyers and defenders (Gald Law) and the National Lesbian Center (NCLR) (NCLR), claiming that the order violates equal defense laws.
“The Supreme Court's decision to allow the military ban to enter into force is devastating to thousands of qualified transgender members who have met standards and serve respectively, putting their lives on their country every day,” said Jennifer Levi, Senior Director of Gald Law. “Today's decision only adds to the chaos and destruction caused by this administration. It is not the end of the case, but what it creates is devastating and irreparable. History confirms the weight of injustice today.”
The trans-military prohibition is only one of the many operations that Trump has taken the transsexual community against other executive orders that prevent them from updating their gender markers in federal documents and threaten to reduce federal funding from hospitals.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson were disagreement in the decision.
