The United States Supreme Court, the majority of conservative, provisionally authorized Trump administration on Tuesday, May 6, to exclude transgender army.
By a majority of six votes, against the opinion of the three progressive judges, the Court lifts the suspension by a court of first instance of a decree of the American president Donald Trump, until a Federal Court of Appeal has spoken on the merits.
Two federal judges, one in the state of Washington (west) and one in the Federal capital, had suspended the presidential decree excluding transgender people from the armed forces. But the Trump administration called on these decisions and then seized the Supreme Court.
“To make sure that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, we are going to get rid of our army of transgender ideology”said Donald Trump at the end of January, before signing a decree in this direction.
“Expressing a false gender identity, divergent to the sex of an individual, cannot meet the rigorous standards necessary for military service”can we read in particular in the decree. A group of transgender people, soldiers or wishing to become it, had then challenged this decree in justice.
-Transgender people already targeted by Trump
Under this text, the American Ministry of Defense indicated in February its intention not only to stop the recruitment of transgender people in the armed forces, but also to expel those who are already part of it, except special derogation.
Donald Trump had already targeted transgender people during his first mandate (2017-2021), preventing recruitment in the army of people with hormonal treatment or having already carried out medical change of sex.
His successor Democrat Joe Biden returned to this decision and had again authorized their enrollment, stressing that “All Americans capable of serving in the United States armed forces should be able to do so”.
The number of transgender people in the US military would be around 15,000 out of approximately two million soldiers, according to estimates.
