Posted on 02/07/2025 4:30:37 AM PST by Libloather
Lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign, two leading LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday challenging the Trump administration over the president’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military.
The lawsuit, which was obtained by ABC News, was filed in the U.S. District Court-Western District of Washington on behalf of six active duty transgender service members, a transgender person seeking to enlist in the military, as well as Seattle human rights organization Gender Justice League.
"By categorically excluding transgender people, the 2025 Military Ban and related federal policy and directives violate the equal protection and due process guarantees of the Fifth Amendment and the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment," the lawsuit said. "They lack any legitimate or rational justification, let alone the compelling and exceedingly persuasive ones required. Accordingly, Plaintiffs seek declaratory, and preliminary and permanent injunctive, relief."
U.S. Navy Commander Emily "Hawking" Shilling, who according to the lawsuit has been serving in the military for 19 years, criticized the ban in a statement, saying that the measure is "not about readiness or cohesion, and it is certainly not about merit."
"It is about exclusion and betrayal, purposely targeting those of us who volunteered to serve, simply for having the courage and integrity to live our truth," Shilling said,
The lawsuit comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 28, rescinding Biden administration policies that permitted transgender service members to serve openly in the military based on their gender identity.
The order directed the Department of Defense to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender service members and stated that "expressing a false "gender identity" divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service."
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“Western District of Washington”
TOTALLY not venue-shopping for corrupt Lefty federal “judges”...
Wouldn't be a problem if they hadn't let f@ggots into the military in the first place.
Bill Clinton did that.
True enough.
It’s good to make the point, that the military is very different from civilian life. There are many medical and mental conditions, which disqualify someone from military service.
Yet we are supposed to believe, that there is no problem, with someone getting these surgeries and hormone treatments, and that such people will not hamper the military readiness of their mission.
And now we see, certain people want to say, there is a constitutional right for people with obvious issues, to be in the military.
The same narcissism that drives people to mutilate themselves informs them that they are simply citizens wearing uniforms. They are not and I was not.
the next day I ask my dad about that and his response to be was yep government issue..
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