Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday stated the choose who dominated that the Pentagon should enable transgender troops ought to report back to army bases since she is “now a high army planner.”
U.S. District Choose Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction final week blocking the Pentagon from implementing President Donald Trump’s government order banning transgender individuals from serving within the army.
Trump’s Jan. 27 order stated “expressing a false ‘gender identification’ divergent from a person’s intercourse can not fulfill the rigorous requirements mandatory for army service” and instructed the Division of Protection to replace its medical requirements for army service and pronoun insurance policies.
The president’s order stated that “past the hormonal and surgical medical interventions concerned, adoption of a gender identification inconsistent with a person’s intercourse conflicts with a soldier’s dedication to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined way of life, even in a single’s private life.”
In her ruling, the choose stated Trump’s order incorporates language that’s “unabashedly demeaning,” including that the coverage “stigmatizes transgender individuals as inherently unfit.”
Hegseth responded to the ruling on the social media platform X.
“Since ‘Choose’ Reyes is now a high army planner, she/they’ll report back to Fort Benning at 0600 to instruct our Military Rangers on the way to execute Excessive Worth Goal Raids…after that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to coach our Inexperienced Berets on counterinsurgency warfare,” he wrote.
The choose delayed her order till Friday morning to permit time for the Trump administration to enchantment, which it stated it will do.
Reyes stated in her resolution that the manager order doubtless poses constitutional rights violations.
“The courtroom is aware of that this opinion will result in heated public debate and appeals. In a wholesome democracy, each are constructive outcomes,” Reyes wrote. “We should always all agree, nevertheless, that each one who has answered the decision to serve deserves our gratitude and respect.”
“Certainly, the merciless irony is that hundreds of transgender servicemembers have sacrificed – some risking their lives – to make sure for others the very equal safety rights the Army Ban seeks to disclaim them,” the choose added, noting that the defendants, however, “haven’t proven they are going to be burdened by persevering with the established order pending this litigation, and avoiding constitutional violations is all the time within the public curiosity.”
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