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From Fox News: A group of transgender service members and rights groups are filing a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s restrictions on transgender troops in the military.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of six active duty transgender service members by GLAD Law and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), argues that the new executive order violates the equality guarantees of the U.S. Constitution.
Filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the suit says the six transgender service members would lose access to healthcare and retirement benefits as a result of the executive order.
“When you put on the uniform, differences fall away and what matters is your ability to do the job,” said Army 2nd Lt. Nicolas Talbott, named as plaintiff in the suit: Talbott v. Trump.
The new order, signed by Trump on Monday evening, requires Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to update medical standards to ensure they “prioritize readiness and lethality” and take action to “end the use of invented and identification-based pronouns” within DOD.
The new order mandates that sleeping, changing and bathing facilities should not be occupied by members of the opposite biological sex.
It also states that expressing a “gender identity” different from a person’s sex at birth does not meet military standards.
Although exact numbers are not available, the report estimates there are between 9,000 to 14,000 transgenders in the U.S. military.
If you suffer from a mental illness you should be given psychological treatment and medically discharged. Dysphoria shouldn’t be treated any differently.https://t.co/a8YwBCWsOE
— Jswarens (@jeff_swarens) January 28, 2025
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