The invitation groups for the rights of transgender people filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the US President Donald Trump The executive thing that targeted the members of the transgender service, which may be the first legal challenge to an angle in its conservative agenda in the Pentagon.
Trump The executive order signed On Monday, this was aimed at sexually transformed forces – at some point he says that the man who determines as a woman “does not agree with humility and self -denial required from a member of the service.”
The lawsuit, which was filed jointly under the happy law and the National Center for Lenground Rights (NCLR) in a local court in Washington, DC, challenges the constitutionality of the executive order and said it violates the component of equal protection in the fifth amendment to the American constitution.
Among the prosecutors are six members of the transgender service and two individuals looking to join the army.
Reuters was the first to report plans to file the lawsuit.
Trump’s executive orders said that the expression of a “sexual identity” is different from the gender of the individual at birth, which did not meet the military standards.
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While the prohibition of the use of pronouns was “invented” in the army, it did not answer the basic questions, including whether the transgender soldiers who serve the army will be allowed to stay, and if not, how will they be removed.
Trump’s order was strongly criticized by rights groups and some democratic legislators.
Senator Andi Kim said: “President Trump’s executive is an insult to the courage and service of transgender soldiers.”
“How can we have an army that protects all Americans if he does not recognize and respect all Americans?” He added.
During his first term, Trump announced that he would prevent sexually transformed forces from service in the army. This ban was not fully followed up – his administration froze their employment while allowing employees to stay.
president Joe Biden He canceled the decision when he took office in 2021.
The army owns about 1.3 million active employees in the service, and the Ministry of Defense data. While the advocates of the transgender rights say that there are up to 15,000 members of the transgender service, officials say the number is low.
When Trump announced his first ban in 2017, he said that the army needed to focus on “crucial and overwhelming victory” without the burden of “enormous medical costs and disruption” in obtaining sexually transformed employees.
