A majority conservative, the United States Supreme Court has temporarily authorized the administration of Donald Trump to exclude transgender army. A group of transgender people, soldiers or wishing to become it, had then challenged this decree in justice.
The United States Supreme Court, with a majority of conservative, provisionally authorized the Trump administration on Tuesday, excluding 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.
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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.
“We are going to get rid of our army of transgender ideology”
“To make sure that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, we will get rid of our army of transgender ideology,” said Donald Trump at the end of January, before signing a decree in this sense. “Expressing a false ‘gender identity’, a divergent sex of an individual, cannot meet the rigorous standards necessary for military service”, can be read in the decree.
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A group of transgender people, soldiers or wishing to become it, had then challenged this decree in justice. 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.
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His Democratic successor Joe Biden had returned to this decision and had again authorized their enrollment, stressing that “all the Americans capable of serving in the armed forces of the United States 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.
