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Supreme Court Allows Trump's Transgender Military Ban to Move Forward
They overruled the injunctions that had been halting the ban while the case is heard.
The Supreme Court just voted 5 to 4 to allow President Trump’s policy against transgender people in the military to go into effect for the time being.
Lower courts around the country had issued injunctions blocking Trump’s policy after it was announced via Twitter in July 2017. The Supreme Court ruling lifts them, as the legal battle seeking to appeal the restrictions continues.
Trump’s transphobic restrictions will prohibit people with gender dysphoria who hope to transition or have transitioned from serving in the military.
This is in direct opposition to a policy set forth by the Obama administration when the former Defense Secretary announced that “transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.”
Today’s decision has already been denounced by progressive groups across the country.
“For more than 30 months, transgender troops have been serving our country openly with valor and distinction, but now the rug has been ripped out from under them, once again,” Lambda Legal Counsel Peter Renn said. “We will redouble our efforts to send this discriminatory ban to the trash heap of history where it belongs.”
He also called the Supreme Court’s decision “perplexing,” saying that “on the one hand denying the Trump administration’s premature request for review of lower court rulings before appellate courts have ruled and rebuffing the administration’s attempt to skirt established rules; and yet on the other allowing the administration to begin to discriminate, at least for now, as the litigation plays out.”
Trump’s ban will now go into effect until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rules on the cases open against it.
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
