A federal court today blocked trump’s ban on transgender service members. The order in Washington by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly temporarily prevents to the Pentagon from enacting the ban that trump announced by his tweet in July. It is the first court order following challenges to trump's ban and can be appealed. Lawyers for the plaintiffs hailed the decision, saying that it means the guarantees made under the Obama administration to transgender troops, including medical care, are back in place. That also means the Pentagon must begin making plans to accept new transgender troops by Jan. 1, 2018, said Shannon Minter, legal director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. In August, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced that transgender troops would be allowed to stay in the ranks while experts studied issues surrounding their service. In 2016, the Pentagon rescinded its longstanding ban on service by transgender troops. The policy outlined how troops could receive medical treatment, including gender reassignment surgery. But on July 26, Trump surprised the Pentagon and tweeted that there was no room in the military for transgender troops and that the government would no longer pay for their treatment. (Written today by Tom Vanden Brook) We'll see where that takes us this time. I, personally, think that if someone wants to join the army, you let them join, no matter who they are. Just because somebody identifies with another gender/is transgender doesn't make them any less human, and trump treats the LGBTQ+ community like aliens.
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I wrote my Current Event on this issue as well! I think it's fantastic that people are standing up to Trump's unrealistic, dehumanizing, and unfair policies. I hope that the ban on the ban stays that way forever.
ReplyDeleteTrumps “unrealistic” policies are completely logical. I believe in equality believe me and I have nothing against the LGBTQ+ community, however he military simply doesn’t have the time or money to deal with those people. The military recently has had to deal with paying for gender switches in trans people, which is extraordinarily expensive. The costs of which are putting us further in debt for little to no pay off. It’s gotten to the point where people could just join for the cover of that cost and then bounce. Trump mentioned that he had nothing against gays, in fact his campaign was more gay freindly than Hillary’s, who’s foundation took money from countries that would kill gays, however he did make the point that the millitary is meant to protect the people and overwhelm its foes. It doesn’t need drama and so it won’t get it. I think it is a sad decision but the right decision for now.
ReplyDeleteI Completely agree! I'm not even sure what his goal is anymore.
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DeleteIt makes me really glad to see that there are still people in the government fighting for basic human rights!
ReplyDeleteI wrote about this on my blog also! I'm glad that somebody in the legal system finally stood up to the President's flaws ideas!
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