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‘See you in court’: Civil rights teams problem Trump’s trans army ban

Editorial Board Published January 29, 2025
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President Donald Trump signed a handful of govt orders Monday, reshaping the U.S. army to suit his MAGA values. One particularly revives his outdated quarrel with transgender army personnel.

Whereas he tried to ban transgender army members throughout his first time period, Trump is taking a unique method this time round by focusing on trans members beneath the guise of “troop readiness.”

Per the chief order, the army has been “afflicted with radical gender ideology,” which is an oblique manner of referring to transgender individuals with out ever really utilizing the phrase “transgender.” 

It goes on to state that “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.”

The language of the order provides energy to the extremely controversial Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth to find out who falls into the class of somebody who is prepared or not prepared for battle. 

Given Hegseth’s shiny file of bashing ladies and transgender individuals in army roles, it’s probably he could have no downside following in Trump’s transphobic footsteps. 

The Human Rights Marketing campaign and Lambda Authorized are already gearing as much as sue the Trump administration for the “cruel and dangerous” order. 

“See you in court,” the 2 teams wrote in a collaborative Instagram publish.


Protesters march in opposition to transphobia.

Whereas Trump’s group claims these with “radical gender ideology” are a priority for “troop readiness,” Lambda Authorized says in any other case. 

“[The executive order] will harm readiness because it will remove servicemembers that the military has invested millions of dollars in training,” Lambda Authorized Counsel and Nonbinary and Transgender Rights Mission Director Sasha Buchert informed Every day Kos. 

“Thousands of transgender troops are combat-tested, having been deployed to war zones and executed missions with distinction, many of whom are senior personnel with decades of experience. It will hurt unit cohesion because it will discriminate against otherwise qualified service members, sending the message that identity rather than merit is what is important and that some discrimination is acceptable,” Buchert added.

Traditionally, transgender individuals needed to serve within the army secretly till President Barack Obama eliminated a ban, successfully permitting transgender individuals to serve brazenly. Trump reinstated the ban in his first time period, nevertheless it largely stayed tied up within the courts till it was overturned by President Joe Biden. 

With Trump simply greater than every week into his second time period, we’re already seeing a slew of anti-trans measures going down—which isn’t shocking contemplating the tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} spent in transphobic advertisements he ran throughout his presidential marketing campaign. 

Along with his army ban, Trump signed an govt order declaring that the federal authorities will solely outline intercourse as both feminine or male, rejecting the truth that individuals may be trans, nonbinary, intersex, or in any other case genderqueer. This order is anticipated to be challenged in courtroom as nicely. 

Assaults in opposition to the already susceptible transgender group have been occurring even earlier than Trump began his second time period. Not solely are members of Congress attacking a colleague for being transgender, however GOP Home Speaker Mike Johnson additionally snuck in a provision on the most recent army protection spending invoice banning gender-affirming look after army kids. 

Moreover, the Supreme Courtroom is anticipated to rule on an analogous case, United States v. Skrmetti, which is able to decide the constitutionality of banning medical look after transgender minors. 

Evidently, civil rights teams are gearing up for an extended 4 years forward.

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