Trump bans trans people from the US Army, calling it "afalse gender identity«
New twist of the screw Donald Trump against the rights LGTBIQ +, one of his main workhorses in his return to the Casa Blanca. The president of United States has signed several decrees to reform the Army, among which is one that aims to establish the bases for an eventual ban on trans people in the armed forces.
In addition, he has signed another order that states end to inclusion policies within the army eliminated the criteria of “raza"And"sex” when hiring. According to Trump, this is for the purpose of preventing anyone from being “favored or discriminated against in relation to their sex, race, ethnicity, color or creed"
In relation to equality policies, Trump orders his new owner to Trade, Pete Hegseth, to review the policy of the Pentagon the trans people and present results within a period of 60 days. "Military service should be reserved for those who are mentally and physically fit for duty.", writes the president.
Pathologization of trans people
In the decree, Trump pathologizes trans people and cites the Department of Defense's premise that members must “be free from any medical condition or physical defect from which an excessive time off duty for treatment or hospitalization may reasonably be expected".
Al Treating trans people like people with mental problems, Trump further fuels the stigma about the collective, which is still fighting for the depathologization of its identity. It was not until 2018 when the WHO stopped considering transsexuality as a mental disorder.
"Express a false gender identity that differs from a person's sex cannot meet the rigorous standards required for military service”, the decree states, and says that: “Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adopting a gender identity inconsistent with an individual's sex conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, including in his or her personal life. A man's assertion that he or she is a woman, and his or her demand that others respect this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.".
Discontinuation of hormonal treatments
The decree also puts an end to “righ now” to the use of the personal pronouns that do not correspond to the biological sex at birth. The order also states that in the next 30 days the trans women must stop using or sharing “designated sleeping, changing or bathing facilities for women”, and the trans men They will not be able to do the same with those facilities intended for cisgender men. The reverse of this measure suggests that the trans women They will have to share spaces with the cis men, in the same way as the trans men They will have to share space with the cisgender women.
It is the same policy that has already begun to be applied to prison system American, where the trans women They have begun to be transferred to the men's area and it has been ordered stop your hormonal treatments. In 1994 the Supreme Court recognized the vulnerability of transgender people in prisons after a trans woman, Dee Farmer, who alleged that she had been raped while housed with men. The court held that the government has a duty to protect prisoners from violence.
Before the president approved it, Hegseth He had already made progress during his statements on his first day in office. Pentagon we Trump I was planning to sign “today"an order related to the presence of the Trans people in the Army, of which the exact number is unknown. According to the data analysis of the Defense Department by the Palm Center, in 2019 there were 8.980 trans people in active
