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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Trumps Trans Military Ban Backfired. Spectacularly.
How Trumps Trans Military Ban Backfired. Spectacularly.
The presidents efforts to implement a ban on transgender troops has met all-round criticism, as well as defeat in the courts. He may have only helped the cause of trans equality.
Samantha Allen
04.22.18 12:11 AM ET
Even by Trumpian standards, the transgender troop ban has been a colossal failure.
Ever since July 2017, when Trump acceded to the religious right and tweeted a ban on transgender military service without consulting military leaders first, the administration has been dealt blow after blow, suffering two major defeats in the past week alone.
On April 13, a district court in Washington State reaffirmed its prior injunction on Trumps transgender troop ban, writing that it specifically targets one of the most vulnerable groups in our society, and must satisfy strict scrutiny if it is to survive.
Because transgender people have long been subjected to systemic oppression and forced to live in silence, they are a protected class, U.S. District Judge Marsha Peckham added in her ruling.
On April 18, district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotellywho had previously issued one of the four injunctions against the transgender troop ban last yeardenied the Trump administrations motion for a protective order in one of the ongoing legal challenges, ruling that discovery in the case would continue. The Trump administration now has a May 15 deadline to turn over responsive, non-privileged documents related to the ban.
Last year, Time predicted that the ban may backfire politically. By now, it already has.
Not only will LGBT advocates win the war over transgender military service; they will come away from it with a pile of legal rulings in their favor and more Republican allies on the issue than ever.
Indeed, by trying to hurt the transgender rights movement at a crucial and vulnerable moment, the Trump administration will only help speed it along.
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How Trumps Trans Military Ban Backfired. Spectacularly. (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2018
OP
Theyre trying it with healthcare too. This wont be their wedge, it will be our cudgel. (n/t)
FreepFryer
Apr 2018
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sarge43
(28,946 posts)1. Good
On his long list of vicious decisions, that one is in the top five.
Pluvious
(4,332 posts)3. Glad to see positive unintended consequences, but...
...I'd guess he prolly doesn't really care either way.
No doubt, all Anus Face really wanted to achieve, was:
1) play to his base of bigots
2) distract the rest of us from from his troubles
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)4. Theyre trying it with healthcare too. This wont be their wedge, it will be our cudgel. (n/t)