Skeptical judge Questions Executive Command prohibiting members of transgender services to join the army
At the hearing court in Washington, DC, Judge Ana Reyes, a Appointed The federal judge was punished by the lawyer of the Ministry of Justice Jason Lynch to represent the Ministry of Defense in the federal lawsuit, which challenged the executive order of President Trump, which forbids the transgender individuals to serve in the military.
“The command signed President of the United States He calls the whole category of people, dishonest, unmistakable, people who have received a fire medal for this country, can you tell me if that language expresses Animas, “Judge Reyes Lynch asked.
“Yes, no, or don’t I know?” Reyes asked, to which Lynch replied, “I don’t know.”
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Judge Reyes exploded: “We are dealing with inappropriate animus, the whole group of people who served this country, calling them liars!” This is the policy of the President of the United States that affect thousands of people, she said. “To call the whole group of people liars who do not have integrity, how is anything else but the portrayal of Animus,” Judge Reyes asked.
Lynch claimed it’s not a transgender ban, it’s a break while Minister of Defense Determines how to harmonize politics with the president’s executive order.
“If we had President Trump here and we asked him if this was a transgender ban on what you think he would say,” Judge Lynch asked.
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Lynch replied that he didn’t know. Judge Reyes continued, “he would say, of course, it’s because he calls him transgender prohibition. “
On January 27, President Trump signed the Executive Command “Priority of Military Excellence and Readiness”, stating that “the armed forces affected by radical gender ideology to activate activists who were not carefree with the demands of the military service … and the Kohesia unit. ” The command is also stated: “Adoption of 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.”
Judge Reyes withdrew to this definition asking, “Does the Government believe that trans ideology, yes or no.” When the Attorney General could not answer, she pressed further, “Transgere people just have an ideology, not an invariable characteristic … just thinking something in my head?”
Reyes continued to tell the lawyer’s dock to Jason Lynch that the assumption of the executive command was based on a “incorrect biological assessment”, because, as she said, there is more than two sexes. Judge Reyes then listed 30 different intersex examples: including people who have three X chromosomes and some who have XY but have female genitals.
Proponents of transgender people march from the castle of the Governor of the South Dakota to the capitol in Pierre, southern Dakota, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves, file)
Last Friday Tweet from the US army forbade transgender people to join the army and stop surgery for members of transgender services. This was followed by an interview given by the Minister of Defense Hegsetth Breitbart, in which he issued not so much warning to high military officers who refused to “make a change of culture”.
“I’m not here to declare anyone waking up and they’re out,” Hegsetth told Breitbart. “I get very much attention. There are a lot of three -star generals for promotion or upstairs in new positions, and there will already be several people we identify who will have different jobs over time …. They are an executive command here.
“#Usarmy will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating the procedures associated with gender transitions for service members. Follow more details,” the army posted on X.
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Two LGBTQ legal organizations, joy and national center for lesbian rights, represent 6 transgender prosecutors who are currently serving in the military and 2 who have been in the application process.
The lawsuit affects the estimated 9,000 to 14,000 members of transgender service. The military does not categorize or keep records of those who are transgender, so the exact number is difficult to evaluate.
One of the leading prosecutors is Army reserve 2. Lieutenant Nicolas Talbott31-year-old transgender man who grew up in Lisbon in Ohi on his grandparents farm before applying last March. He moved from woman to male 2012.
“I was O-9 Sierra. I went straight out of elementary training to a candidate for an officer where I ordered as a second lieutenant. And since I was in reserve, I knew that he went into the army that I would be an army of a cop.” I managed to follow some young children. But for the most part I surpassed them. In this regard, I was very pleasantly surprised by myself. “
Members of the US military community march down the road during the Washington capital festival, DC, June 10, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Talbott wanted to join the army after September 11. He pushed back to the question of whether the army lowered standards so that he could forward the physical demands of basic training.
“The slogan of the candidate’s official school is standards. There are no compromises. And they live up to 100%. There were no compromises for anyone, including me,” Talbott said. “I was treated the same as everyone else. I appeared like everyone else. I performed like everyone else. There were no disorders that were caused by simply my presence.”
Talbott’s lawyer Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Lesbian Rights Center, was in the courtroom today.
“That’s so simple. It’s so simple. We have one legal argument to violate the clause of equal protection to single out a group of people to exclude them from military service based on a characteristic that has absolutely nothing to do with their fitness or job’s ability,” Minter told Fox. “These Trans -service members must meet exactly the same standards as others in terms of medical requirements, fittings for implementation, abilities and working effects. There is no special job for transgender troops. They serve on the same conditions as everyone else.”
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The President’s executive order and the subsequent Memorandum of the Minister of Defense Hegsetth 7. February described the decision as a question of willingness. “The department must ensure that it builds” one force “without subgroups defined any other than the ability and adherence to the mission. The efforts to share our troops according to the identity weaken our force and make us vulnerable,” Hegsetth wrote. “Immediately enter into force, all new approaches to people with the history of gender dysphoria have been paused, and all unplanned, scheduled or planned medical procedures associated with confirmation or facilitating gender crossing for service members are pausing.”
Judge Reyes cited a recent case in which a member of the transgender service was “at the operating table that would receive anesthesia” and someone stopped the surgery to adhere to the leadership of the Minister of Defense. She mentioned the second case where a transgender service member drove all night from the military base to get a medical necessary procedure until the commander called and said, “You have to turn and return or be considered AWOL, absent without leave,” and face with punishment.
Some supporters of transgender military prohibitions suggest that surgery and hormone treatments can interfere with the cycles of deployment.
The US Ministry of Defense (Dod) seal in the Pentagon Brifing Room in Arlington, Virginia., The United States, on Wednesday, September 1, 2021. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Absolutely no,” Minter said, noting that, in order to join the army, the person had to move and be stable for at least 18 months before applying.
“Medical treatments that transgender people go through, do not have any effects scheduled. Hormone therapy has no effect at all…. There are no transgender people in the army. Far shorter than many other more common medical conditions that are subjected to other members of the service,” such as knee operations or accessories. “So it’s really red herring.”
“If this ban becomes in place, it will personally influence me that they basically break my dream,” Talbott said. “I always wanted to be that when I grow up, so to speak, is the officer of the United States Army. And I think it affects me in my personal life, you know, not only as an officer in the army, but as an American citizen.
A recent survey of Gallup shows 58% of Americans support transgender individuals in the armywhich is a drop of 66% in 2021 and 71% in 2019.
Judge Reyes asked lawyer’s launch lawyer Jason Lynch at the beginning of the hearing that if he was under fire in Lisica with someone who is transgender and has praise for courage, “you would not care about their gender ideology, right?” Lynch replied that he suspected his gender identity would be in mind in that situation.
