Current Events: Judge Temporarily Blocks Military Ban on Transgenders
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/military-transgender-ban.html
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotlley blocked Trump’s memorandum on banning transgender people from serving in the military on Monday. She found the ban to be potentially unconstitutional, and she ruled that the military’s current policy should stay in place. She noted that the proposed policies violated the equal protection laws of the Constitution, and she also claimed that Trump’s reasoning for banning transgenders from the military are not factually supported. Monday’s ruling was a very encouraging step for supporters, and if everything goes well, new trans recruits will be able to enlist in January and current troops will be able to rejoin.
Trump’s proposal to ban transgenders from the military was such an incredibly stupid idea for it was just sending the improvements of our “free” country back in time. If someone is willing to fight for their country, the government should accept and embrace that, not ban them. I look forward to the day when we get a new president and they will probably work on undoing everything that Trump has completely screwed up. I recently did a project on women’s roles in the revolution, and even back then when sexism was very prominent, women were still accepted into military regiments because they wanted to fight and why would the government tell them that they couldn’t? Thank goodness that Trump doesn’t have too much power and is getting checked because we should be progressing and not digressing.
I agree with your article, and am glad that checks and balances are in place.
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