Six active military personnel argued before the court that the government's veto violated their constitutional rights.
The long list of judicial setbacks of Donald Trump Since he returned to the Oval Office, he has not stopped growing. The president of the United States has added one more this Tuesday after a federal judge has suspended the order of the American government that prohibits the transgender people serve in the army the country.
This is the magistrate Anna Reyes, which has prevented the Republican administration from enforcing the ban, which was included in an order signed by the president shortly after taking the oath of office in mid-January and was scheduled to take effect later this month. Casa Blanca claimed the need for "maintain the status quo» of the military policy of the previous Democratic administration. Now, however, the judge's decision leaves until this Friday for the authorities to appeal the sentence.
Order 14183
In his executive order 14183, Trump stipulated that identifying with a gender different from assigned sex to an individual”It conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in his personal life.”. According to that document, the use of pronouns incompatible with the assigned sex compromised “lThe Government's ability to establish high standards of troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity".
For the sake of United States and of the Americans who enlist to serve the country, military service was to be reserved for those “mentally and physically fit for duty". "The Armed forces They must adhere to high standards of mental and physical health to ensure that our military can deploy, fight, and win, even under conditions of austerity and without the benefit of routine medical treatment or special provisions.", the executive order said.
Principle of equality
The judge, appointed by Joe Biden During his term, he has justified blocking this executive order by invoking the principle of Declaration of Independence of the United States, mentioned in its opinion, which states that "all human beings are created equal«.
Reyes has criticized the ban on Trump because he considers that "It is steeped in animosity and full of pretexts", as stated in the judge's writing published by the North American television network CNN.
«Their language is blatantly demeaning, their policy stigmatizes transgender people as inherently inadequate, and their conclusions bear no relation to the facts.", the judge indicated. "Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender service members have sacrificed themselves—some risking their lives—to guarantee others the same rights of protection that the military ban seeks to deny them.«, Has pointed out.
The federal judge's ruling responds to a case presented by six transgender members of the military that are active and two more people waiting to enlist and that they could not if the plan of the Casa Blanca comes out ahead.
The judge thus dismissed the argument of the US Department of Justice, which defended that the president of the country has broad authority to determine who can serve in the military, considering that "Leaders have used concerns about military readiness to deny marginalized people«. For Reyes, United States Armed ForcesThey are so powerful thanks, in part, to the "minorities", the "women in combat" Y "gays«.
