By Mark Sherman, Associated Press
Washington (AP) – The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to authorize the application of a ban on transgender people in the army, while judicial disputes take place.
The high court file follows a brief order from a federal court of appeal which maintained an order of the court blocking the policy nationwide.
President Donald Trump has signed a decree for a week in his mandate which claims the sexual identity of transgender soldiers “comes into conflict with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful and disciplined way of life, even in his personal life” and is harmful to military preparation.
In response, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has issued a policy that disqualifies transgender people from the military service.
But in March, the judge of the American district court Benjamin Settle in Tacoma, Washington, ruled for several long -standing transgender soldiers who say that the prohibition is insulting and discriminatory, and that their dismissal would cause lasting damage to their careers and their reputation.
Trump’s republican administration did not give any explanation of the reason why the transgender troops, which have been able to be used openly in the past four years without any proof of problems, should suddenly be prohibited, Settle wrote. The judge is appointed from Republican President George W. Bush and a former captain of the American army judge Advocate General Corps.
In 2016, during the presidency of Barack Obama, a policy of the Ministry of Defense enabled transgender people to serve openly in the army. During Trump’s first term at the White House, the Republican published a directive aimed at banning transgender soldiers, with one exception for some of those who had already started to transmit under the more indulgent rules which were in force during the democratic administration of Obama.
The Supreme Court allowed the prohibition to take effect. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, canceled him when he took office.
The rules that the Ministry of Defense wishes to enforce any exceptions.
Thousands of transgender people serve in the army, but they represent less than 1% of the total number of soldiers in active service.
Policy was also blocked by a federal judge in the national capital, but this decision was temporarily interrupted by a federal court of appeal, which heard arguments on Tuesday. The panel of three judges includes two judges appointed by Trump during his first mandate.
In a more limited decision, a New Jersey judge also prohibited the Air Force from withdrawing two transgender men, claiming that they show that their separation would cause lasting damage to their career and their reputation that no money regulation could repair.
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