The United States Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration can advance with a prohibition of members of the transgender military service for now, raising a court order of the lower court against politics after a judge ruled that it was a “policy of unfair and facially unfair exclusion.”
The court did not explain its decision apart from saying that the order would expire if the judges finally assume the case on the merits and would issue a ruling that drives it.
The litigation continues in the United States Court of Appeals for the ninth circuit.
Judges Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson indicated that they would have denied Trump’s request from a stay.
During Trump’s first mandate, the Superior Court took a similar course, raising a court order against a prohibition of members of the transgender service after he was challenged. President Joe Biden ended politics and thousands of transgender members of the military have provided an active service in the last four years.
The Pentagon has estimated that more than 4,200 active service members have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, which is the metric of the military to track the number of transgender troops. The defense groups have put the real number of members of the trans service much higher, around 15,000.
The decision of the Supreme Court means that the military can begin to download to the members of the service that are transgender and stop enlisting transgender people.
The United States Supreme Court building is observed on December 3, 2024 in Washington.
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The Trump administration argued that the President is owed a wide deference in directing the army and shaping the force, framing its policy as a “medical” exclusion. General lawyer John Sauer said that gender dysphoria presented problems for cohesion and lethality of the unit; Two federal judges found little evidence to support those statements.
At the end of April, the Trump administration made a new emergency request that sought an immediate suspension of a national court order that blocks the prohibition of members of the openly transgender military service.
The judge of the Circuit Court Benjamin Settle, a candidate for George W. Bush, when issuing the preliminary judicial order in the case on March 27, had written the Trump administration policy on transgender soldiers would be a “general de facto prohibition” that seeks “to eradicate the transgender service.”
The case was presented by a group of seven members of the transgender service and a transgender person who wishes to enlist in the United States Marines.
In a statement, the defenders of the seven members of the active service service that filed the lawsuit described the ruling as a “devastating blow.”
“By allowing this discriminatory prohibition to take effect while our challenge continues, the Court has temporarily sanctioned a policy that has nothing to do with military preparation and everything that has to do with prejudices,” said Lambda Legal and the human rights campaign foundation that provide legal representation for transgender troops.
“Transgender people comply with the same standards and demonstrate the same values as all that serve. We remain firm in our belief that this prohibition violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection and, ultimately, it will be attacked,” said the foundation.
During a trip to Stuttgart, Germany, in February, a member of the US Service Service, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, was the US African command. UU. Why “four exceptional transgender soldiers” to those who had served together with the Severn years should be eliminated.
Hegseth replied: “It is a continuous review, with our step forward in the preparation and implementation, preparation and implementation, which is what we have seen. And there are many scientific ways in which that letter can explain about why there are complications with trans soldiers in which with preparation and deployment.”
