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As promised, Donald Trump's actual would-be implementation of a ban on transgendered troops, as translated from his previous tweet-decree, is being met with lawsuits.
Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s ban on military service by transgender individuals. [...]
“We promised that we would sue if the president took this action. The law is on our side; justice is on our side," said Peter Perkowski, Legal Director for OutServe-SLDN. "And we are on the side of every single transgender service member and those who want to serve. The nation’s courts exist to protect the people whom tyrants would otherwise abuse. Trump can’t tweet his way out of this one.”
Also filing suit: The American Civil Liberties Union.
“Each and every claim made by President Trump to justify this ban can be easily debunked by the conclusions drawn from the Department of Defense’s own review process. Allowing men and women who are transgender to serve openly and providing them with necessary health care does nothing to harm military readiness or unit cohesion,” said Josh Block, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project. “Men and women who are transgender with the courage and capacity to serve deserve more from their commander-in-chief.”
Donald Trump said that if he was elected, we'd get tired of all the "winning." He seems to have meant we'd get tired of all the lawsuits, but it’s hard to see why. They're actually quite refreshing, aren't they?