Posted on 03/26/2019 3:36:23 PM PDT by jazusamo
A federal appeals court finalized Tuesday its ruling to lift an injunction against President Trump’s transgender military ban, allowing the policy to take effect April 12 as planned.
The Pentagon announced this month it will enforce a policy banning most transgender people from serving in the military starting April 12.
The announcement came after courts ruled to lift all four injunctions that had been placed on the ban. But the Trump administration and transgender groups continued to fight over whether one of the injunctions remained in effect.
Lawyers for transgender troops suing the administration argued the injunction was still in force because the D.C. Circuit’s January ruling lifting it allowed for a period of time for the plaintiffs to decide whether they want a rehearing in front of the court’s full bench. The deadline to decide is March 29.
Last week, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the judge who originally placed the injunction, sided with the plaintiffs and said the hold on the policy remained in effect until after the deadline.
But on Tuesday, a three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit granted the Trump administration’s motion to issue a mandate finalizing its earlier ruling to lift the injunction.
GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) and National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), co-counsels in the lawsuit at issue, have not yet decided whether to petition for a rehearing in front of the D.C. Circuit’s full bench, but doing so would have no bearing on the Pentagon ability to implement the ban April 12 as planned.
Though all of the injunctions have now officially been lifted, courts have not ruled on the underlying merits of the four lawsuits against the ban, and advocates are vowing to press on in their cases.
“The government’s plan is already wreaking havoc in the lives of dedicated transgender troops who must now face the grim choice of suppressing their identity or leaving military service, to the detriment of their fellow service members and national security,” NCLR legal director Shannon Minter said in a statement. “Today’s ruling only drives home the urgency of continuing to fight this destructive policy, which we will continue to do in the district court.”
The House is also scheduled to vote this week on a resolution rejecting the policy.
Good. About time.
Aside from the fact that “transgenders” are mentally ill and in need of psychological help, not admission to the armed forces, it would also seem that those so afflicted are supremely self-focused, This self-focus, or self-centeredness, is diametrically opposed to the military concept of team-focus and de-emphasizing the individual. Even if they never expressed their warped sexuality, it seems these people would still present problems in the military as their priority would be themselves, rather than the unit.
Great news, and about time-”transgender” people are emotionally unsdtable, and they need to take meds/hormones to maintain their fake gender-both of those things would make a normal person non-deployable-and so are they...
Get ‘em out.
Get ‘em out.
Oops-”unstable”
Bump!
That was well thought out. Good job.
I thought President Trump would have to go to the Supreme Court before getting an intelligent court ruling on this issue. Glad I was wrong.
Now their down to only one life option for someone else, ie., the public, to pay for their self mutilation. That is to go to prison in California .
I thought so also with the number of lib judges on the federal bench that bend over backwards to support these type causes, many of them ignore the fact our military is not a democratic society.
Undoing yet another Obama-ism. Sorry mental illness homos, the military isn’t your playground.
Wait until Roberts gets a hold of it.
We had one way out in our extended family by adoption not blood. In every measurable way a total wreck of humanity.
Hiya onyx!
Thanks, I’ve read a few estimates and that seems a little higher than what I’ve seen but of course it’s gotta be difficult to really pin it down. You’re right though, if that’s accurate that’s a lot of them in uniform.
Looks like there is going to be a lot less of them for the ones out of the closet and the best thing is they won’t be able to have taxpayer dollars for transitions.
0bama and his administration worked hard to screw up the military and the country for that matter, I’m so glad that turkey is gone.
Very sorry to hear that. It stands to reason that if someone can’t even figure out what gender they are it’s highly unlikely that they are mentally sound otherwise.
The ban is on people with gender dysphoria. People who have already transitioned or can function as their real sex are not banned.
If they are confused about something as simple as what sex they are, they might get confused about what side they are fighting against.
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