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A group of members and legal groups of transgender services submits a lawsuit against President Donald Trumps Restrictions for transgender troops in the military.
The Suit, Submitted on behalf of six transgender service members of the active service according to Glad Law and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), argues that the new executive regulation violates the equality guarantees of the US constitution.
In the lawsuit at the US district court for the District of Columbia, the six transgender service members would lose access to health and retirement provision as advantages Result of the executive regulation.
“If you put on the uniform, the differences fall away and what your ability is to do the work,” said the 2nd Lt. Nicolas Talbott, who is referred to as the plaintiff in the lawsuit: Talbott v. Trump.
The new order signed by Trump on Monday evening requires Defense Minister Pete Hegseth In order to update medical standards to ensure that they “prioritize willing and lethality” and take measures to “end the use of invented and identifying pronouns in DOD”.
Proponents protest against Trump’s transgender military ban during his first term. (Getty Images)
It is said that expressing a “gender identity” that differs from the gender of an individual at birth does not correspond to the military standards.
The order also limits the facilities for the sleep, change and bathing facilities by biological gender. It is not an immediate ban, but an instruction for the Minister of Defense to implement such guidelines.
It canceled the former president Joe Biden’s The executive order that argues the White House allows “to accommodate the” gender identity “in the military – to the detriment of military willingness and cohesion of unity”.
The categorical ban of members of the Transgender Service was lifted in 2014 under President Barack Obama.
“I was military all my life. I was born on a military base,” said Navy -Fähnrich Danridge, student flight officer, a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Defense Minister Pete Hegseth says “no longer dei in the Ministry of Defense”: “No exceptions”
“Every day I serve my boots as well as everyone else. I exist the same tests as everyone else. Transgender is irrelevant for my service. What matters is that I can do the decisive tasks for our mission.”
“I spent more than half of my life in the army, including the fight in Afghanistan,” said Army Sgt. Class Kate Cole. “Removing qualified transgender soldiers like me means an exodus of experienced staff who fills key positions and cannot be easily replaced.”
Trump’s new arrangement builds on a different guideline, which he published last week and which enabled the bid era command to serve transgender people in the military.
Lawsuit against Trump’s latest executive regulation. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Trump instructed Dod to limit the accommodations for transgender troops. (Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
On the campaign path, Trump promised to resume the ban on transgender troops, which he imposed during his first term. In his inauguration speech, he said that he would officially see that there are only two genders: male and female.
There are estimated 9,000 to 14,000 transgender service members – exact figures are not publicly available.
Between January 1, 2016 and May 14, 2021, the DOD reported, according to the Congress Research Service, around $ 15 million for the provision of transgender treatments (surgical and not surgical).
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The move comes as part of a campaign that was received by Trump and Hegseth to eradicate all diversity, justice and inclusion practices (dei) About the military. The GOP legislators have successfully accepted a change in their draft law for Defense Policy of 2025, which prohibits the irreversible transgender supply of minors in the military health system.
