The Supreme Court allows Trump to ban transgender people from the military

On Tuesday afternoon, the Supreme Court has the way for the Trump administration to enforce a policy of the Ministry of Defense that prohibits transgender people to serve in the US military. In view of the three democratic appointments of the court, the information that they had denied the application of the Trump government, the judges held an order of a federal judge in the state of Washington, which prevented the government from implementing politics all over the United States.

Shortly after taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden then signed an executive regulation that made it possible to serve transgender troops to openly serve the military. On January 20 of this year, President Donald Trump Bidens revoked command and made another command in which Defense Minister Pete Hegseth drove a ban on “people with gender dysphoria” – the medical concept for the psychological stress caused by a conflict between gender, becomes at birth and gender identity of the person.

On February 26, the Ministry of Defense published this ban that generally everyone who has either gender -specific dysphoria or subjected medical interventions to treat the gender dysphoria to serve in the military. The department said that “the restrictions on medical, surgical and mental health of people with a current diagnosis or history of gender dysphoria with the high mental and physical standards required for military service are not compatible or have symptoms.”

Seven current transgender members of the armed forces, together with a transgender person who wants to join the military, and a non -profit organization with members who are either transgender troops or would like to go to the Federal Supreme Court to question the new politics. The main plaintiff in the case, Commander Emily Shilling, has been a naval winner for almost two decades and estimates that the Navy spent $ 20 million for her training.

The US district judge Benjamin Settle agreed to the plaintiffs that the prohibition had (among other things) violated the guarantee of the constitution of the same protection. He described the guideline as the “de facto flat rate ban on the transgender service”.

After the US Court of Appeals had rejected the government for the 9th circle for freezing Settle from the government, while the government's appeal came before the Supreme Court on April 24th.

Without the intervention of the Supreme Court, the Trump administration informed the judges that the order of the district court remains, while the legal dispute continues on the 9th circle and, if necessary, in the Supreme Court. This means that the Trump government said: “A time that the military is far too long to maintain a policy that it found in his professional judgment to contradict the military willingness and interests of the nation.”

The challengers countered that the Settle Court would take the order of Settle into the break, but would increase the status quo by allowing the government to relieve thousands of transgender service members, including “to end them” to end the career and holes in military units “.

In a short, non -signed arrangement on Tuesday afternoon, the court granted the application of the Trump administration to pause the order of the view, during the government's appeal procedure in the 9th circle and, if necessary, the Supreme Court. As is often the case with emergency authorities, the court has not explained for its decision.

The three democratic appointments by the court – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – stated that they had denied the government's application. But they also did not explain their argument.