Pentagon to complain of a judge’s decision blocking a ban on transgender persons, says Hegsetth
Pentagon will complain of the decision of the federal judge to block the ban on Trump’s administration with transgender troops, the Minister of Defense Pete Hegsetth said on Wednesday night.
Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, DC, ruled the ban unconstitutionally discriminating on the basis of sex, saying that he was “soaked in animus” and “chatting with an excuse.”
“We appeal to this decision and we will win,” Hegsetth posted on X.
In her opinion, Reyes touched politics and issued an order that blocks the Ministry of Defense of Removal of members of transgender services from the army.
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Defense Minister Pete Hegsetth said that “we will win” a judge who blocked Trans Ban. (Reuters/Yves Herman)
“His language is smoothly humiliating, his policy stigmatizes the transgender persons as inherently inadvertently, and his conclusions have nothing to do with the fact,” she said.
“The cruel irony is that thousands of transgender persons who sacrificed themselves – some risked their lives – to ensure others the same rights of protection that the military prohibition seeks to deny them.”
Reyes’ command gives Trump’s administration until Friday to appeal.
“The ban on the bottom invokes a pernicious language to target a vulnerable group, breaking the fifth amendment,” Reyes said.
“The president has a power-good obligation to insurance military willingness,” she wrote in her 79 pages in her opinion. “Sometimes, however, the leaders used concern for military readiness to negate the marginalized persons privilege of service.”
The Ministry of Justice (DOJ) filed an appeal against Reyes, accusing her of potential bias and misconduct.
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A member of a former Trasngender Service speaks against Trump’s Trans Prohibition in the Army. (Jeremy Hogan/Sopa Pictures/Lightctocket via Getty Images)
“This is the latest example of an activist judge who tried to use power to the detriment of the American people who voted superiorly to choose President Trump,” a spokesman for the Fox News Digital told Fox News. “The Ministry of Justice vigorously defended the executive action of President Trump, including an executive order for women’s defense, and will continue to do so.”
About 4,200 services members, 0.2%, is transgender, according to DOD.
In an executive order for January, president Donald Trump He claimed that the Pentagon was affected by the “radical gender ideology” and “adopting gender identity in disagreement with the sexual conflicts of the individual with the military commitment to the honorable, true and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.”
“The armed forces patients with radical gender ideology to think of activists who were not in connection with the demands of military service such as physical and mental health, selflessness and cohesion of the unit,” the executive order said.
President Donald Trump and Judge Ana Reyes (Getty/Senatonrurubin via YouTube)
The members of the service filed a lawsuit when Pentagon issued new instructions for politics in February, warning that transgender troops would be thrown out of the army. He has not yet been forced to do so, but encouraged them to voluntarily separate.
Reyes said that prosecutors “face a violation of their constitutional rights, which is an irreparable damage.”
The deputy chief of the White House chief Stephen Miller condemned Reyes’ verdict on X, wrote: “The judges of the District Court have now decided to command the armed forces … Is this madness no end?”
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In 2016, the Dod’s policy enabled transgender people to open openly in the army, but Trump revealed that order during his first term. The Supreme Court allowed the prohibition to take effect. President Joe Biden revealed the ban.
Six service members and two people who wanted to apply for the army sued the Government in January for Trump’s executive order. Later, a dozen others joined the suit, including nine on active duties.
Their lawyers, from the National Lesbian Rights Center and the Joy of the Law, said that transgender troops “are looking for nothing more than the possibility of continuing to dedicate their lives to the defense of the nation.”
Fox News’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
