Summary
Six active duty transgender service members and two former members filed a lawsuit against Trump’s executive order banning transgender troops.
The order, signed Monday, claims transgender identity conflicts with military values and readiness.
Plaintiffs argue the ban is unconstitutional and discriminatory, with legal groups including NCLR and GLAD challenging it in court.
The Pentagon stated it will implement Trump’s directive.
Unlike the 2017 ban, this order also targets currently serving transgender personnel, raising concerns over an exodus of experienced military members.
They also signed contracts and have not done anything that would constitute a breach of contract. So firing them would be a breach of contract on the military’s side requiring a buyout of their contract.
That’s not really how that works for the military. You can be separated for “convenience of the government”.
I know the US left all sense of rule of law a while ago, but theoretically, isn’t this order against the civil rights act as a type of gender discrimination?
Considering the constitution should have prevented his candidacy altogether I wouldn’t hold my breath on other laws keeping him in check.
Yes, it’s blatantly illegal, but so is literally everything else right now
They’ll claim “trans isn’t a gender” and the SCROTUS will agree.
It’s going to be like this for the next four years, folks. Buckle in.
It’s going to be more than 4 years
Fingers crossed it won’t even be 4
He’s just a puppet, unfortunately.
Stopping hiring is probably legal, as he is allowed to order the executive branch to do whatever with hiring practices. Firing currently serving people might be a different story, I’m not too sure there.
