During a fiery district court hearing in Washington, D.C., Biden-appointed federal judge, Judge Ana Reyes, has said that, except for President Trump's executive order, which bars transgender individuals from serving. The military is a punitive Justice Department lawyer, Judge Jason Lynch, who is tasked with representing the Department of Defense in a federal lawsuit banning the president's executive order.
“The order signed by the President of the United States calls all categories, injustice and modest people who received medals for setting fire for this country. They tell us whether the language represents animus or not. Can you please do it?” Judge Reyes asked Lynch.
“Yes, no, or don't I know?” Reyes asked Lynch replied: “I don't know.”
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Judge Reyes exploded, “We deal with undestroyed animus, a group of people who served in this country, and we call them liars!” This is a policy of the US president that affects thousands of people, she said. “What about it other than showing animus to call an entire group of people who have no integrity to an entire group of liars,” Judge Rays asked.
Lynch argues that this is not a transgender ban, which is a suspension, and the Secretary of Defense decides how to adjust the policy to the president's executive order.
“If you have President Trump here and ask if this is a transgender ban, I think he'll say it,” Judge Reyes asked Lynch.
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Lynch replied that he didn't know. Judge Reyes continued, “He would say that, of course, because he calls it a transgender ban.”
On January 27, President Trump said, “The military is struggling with radical gender ideology to appease activists who are not involved in military service requirements and unit unit cohesion requirements,” he said. “Preparation Prioritization” signed. The order also stated that “even in individual lives, the adoption of gender identities that contradict individual sexual conflict with soldiers' commitment to an honorable, true, and disciplined lifestyle.”
Judge Reyes pushed back that definition and said, “Does the government believe that being trans is an ideology? When state lawyers were unable to answer, she further pushed it: “Transgender people just have ideology, not constant characteristics.
Reyes told DOJ attorney Jason Lynch that she had more than two genders because she told her executive order's premise was based on a “false biological assessment.” Judge Reyes then listed 30 different examples of intersex. Includes those who have three X chromosomes, those who have XY but have female genitals.
Proponents of transgender people will march from the South Dakota Governor's mansion to the Capitol in Pierre, South Dakota on March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves, File)
A tweet from the US Army last Friday banned transgender people from joining the military and stopped surgery on transgender service members. It followed an interview given by Defense Secretary Hegses to Breitbart, which issued a lesser-restrained warning to senior military officers who refused to “perform cultural changes.”
“I'm not here to declare that no one is awake, but they're out,” Hegses told Breitbart. “I'm very meticulous. There are a lot of three-star and four-star generals for promotion or new positions, and the person we identified who was doing different jobs. There are probably a few already… Here's what we'll see:
“#Usarmy will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will cease to carry out or promote procedures related to gender transitions for service members. Stay tuned for more details.”
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Two LGBTQ legal organizations, Glad and the National Center for Lesbian Rights Center, represent six transgender plaintiffs who are currently serving in the military, with two enlisted.
The lawsuit affects an estimated 9,000 to 14,000 transgender service members. The military does not classify or maintain records of people who are transgender, so accurate numbers are difficult to assess.
One of the main plaintiffs is Nicholas Talbot, the second Army Reserve, a 31-year-old transgender man who grew up in Lisbon, Ohio on his grandparents' farm before joining in March last year. He moved from female to male in 2012.
“I was an O-9 Sierra. I went straight from basic training, where I commissioned as a deputy as. I was in the reserve so I knew I was going to the military. Police officers. So my MOS is li of 91 Alpha police,” Talbot told Fox News. “I managed to catch up with some of the younger kids, but most of the time I surpassed many of them, and I was very happy and surprised at that.”
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Talbot wanted to join the military after 9/11. He pushed back when asked if the troops had lowered the standard so that they could pass the physical requirements of basic training.
“The slogan for candidate officer schools is the standard. There are no compromises. And they live by 100% of that. No one, including me, had compromises,” Talbot said. “I was treated like everyone else. I appeared like everyone else. I played like everyone else. And simply caused by my presence There was no confusion.”
Talbot's lawyer Shannon Minter is the legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and was in court today.
“It's very easy. It's very easy. We have equal protection to select groups of people based on their fitness and their fitness or their unrelated characteristics. There is one legal argument that violates the clause: the ability to do the job,” Minter told Fox. “These trans service members must meet the exact same standards as others in terms of medical requirements, fitness for deployment, ability to competence and duties. There are no special deals for transgender forces. I serve exactly the same conditions as those of you.”
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The President's executive order from Secretary of Defense Hegses on February 7th and subsequent memos described this decision as a preparatory issue. “The department must ensure that it is building 'one force' without subgroups defined by anything other than capabilities and mission compliance. Efforts to divide the army along the lines of identity undermine our strength and make us vulnerable,” writes Hegses. “All new access for individuals with a history of gender discomfort will be suspended immediately and unplanned, scheduled or planned medical care related to affirming or promoting gender transitions for service members. The procedure will be suspended.”
Judge Reyes cited a recent incident in which a transgender service member was “on the operating table trying to get anesthesia,” and someone stopped the surgery to comply with the Secretary of Defense's guidance. She said that trans service members drive from a military base all night to get medically necessary procedures, and the commander called and said, “You need to turn around and come back or no vacation. Instead, he would be considered an awol, “and face punishment.
Some supporters of the transgender ban suggest that surgery and hormonal treatment may interfere with the deployment cycle.
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“It's definitely not,” Minter said that in order for trans people to join the military, they must have already transitioned and stable at least 18 months before enlistment.
“The medical treatments that transgender people receive have little effect on deployment. Hormonal therapy is not effective at all. All transgender people in the military do not have these surgeries. Others Much shorter than many other, much more common medical conditions a service member experiences. “It's really a red herring.”
“If this ban is introduced, this will inherently affect me personally by tearing my dreams apart,” Talbot said. “This is something I always wanted when I grew up. I'm an American Army officer, so to speak. And I think it has an impact on my personal life. But as an American citizen, .
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A recent Gallup poll shows that 58% of Americans support transgender individuals in the military, down from 66% in 2021 and 71% in 2019.
Judge Reyes said at the start of the hearing that when Doji's lawyer Jason Lynch was fired at Foxhall with someone who is celebrating his transgender and courageous praise, he said, “You're conscious of their gender ideology.” I wouldn't do that.” Lynch replies that he suspects gender identity is in his heart in the situation.
