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Mon Dec 10, 2018, 10:40 PM Dec 2018

Trump administration: It's 'extraordinary' judges won't let military restrict transgender troops

Source: Washington Post

Trump administration: It’s ‘extraordinary’ judges won’t let military restrict transgender troops

By Ann E. Marimow
December 10 at 2:07 PM

The Trump administration pressed a federal appeals court Monday to allow the U.S. military to restrict service by transgender men and women, calling it “truly extraordinary” that judges throughout the country have stood in the way of its policy.

Judge Thomas B. Griffith noted the way in which President Trump announced the initial ban last year on transgender troops in a series of tweets — and to the surprise of military leaders — “was extraordinary, too.”

The exchange in Washington came during oral argument at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and after four lower-court judges have temporarily blocked the restrictions in challenges from civil rights and gay rights organizations. Thousands of transgender troops have continued to serve and enlist.

There were parallels in the Trump administration’s argument Monday with those made in support of the president’s ban on travelers to the United States from certain Muslim-majority nations. Trump had initially pledged a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

On the transgender service ban, Trump announced the prohibition via Twitter in July 2017 and cited what he viewed as the “tremendous medical costs and disruption” transgender military service would cause. The administration’s order reversed President Barack Obama’s policy of allowing transgender men and women to serve openly and receive funding for sex-reassignment surgery.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/president-trumps-transgender-military-ban-is-back-in-court/2018/12/09/56a0c13a-f965-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html
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Trump administration: It's 'extraordinary' judges won't let military restrict transgender troops (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2018 OP
Good judges . Extraordinary the crap coming out of this admin not normal not at all . Resist lunasun Dec 2018 #1
Choosing freedom over fascist fundie bullshit nonsense seems like a no brainer. Initech Dec 2018 #2
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