Supreme Court Upholds Military Ban on Transgenders

 Another win for Trump as the Supreme Court upholds his ban on soldiers who have gender dysphoria.

I remember when my boys were in the Army and one of them came home from weekend training and I asked what they did.  I was hoping they shot guns or learned hand to hand combat.  But instead, Luke said,  "we watched a power point on showering with transgenders."

Good grief!  What a colossal waste of time and money!  The military should be about training our soldiers to fight in a war or defend our nation.  No wonder they had problems getting recruits. 

So when Trump signed an order banning transgenders, the Left went to throwing a tantrum and they found lower court judges to block it.  But now the Supreme Court has upheld it.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to implement his ban on transgender people serving in the military.

The justices granted an emergency request from the Trump administration to lift a nationwide injunction blocking the policy while litigation continues.

The court's brief order noted that the three liberal justices dissented.

The decision is a loss for the seven individual transgender service members, led by lead plaintiff Emily Shilling, a Navy commander, who had sued to block it.

In a separate case, a judge in Washington, D.C. also blocked the policy nationwide, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit put that ruling on hold temporarily while it heard arguments on whether to block it more permanently. The court has yet to rule.

The policy, announced in February, is much more comprehensive ban than a similar proposal implemented during the first Trump term. It "generally disqualifies from military service individuals who have gender dysphoria or have undergone medical interventions for gender dysphoria," Solicitor General D. John Sauer said in court papers.

In asking the Supreme Court to intervene, Sauer said that judges are required to show 'substantial deference" to the Department of Defense's judgment on military issues.

In implementing the policy, the government relied on a Pentagon report from the first Trump term that said people with gender dysphoria are a threat to "military effectiveness and lethality."

The challengers argued in court that the ban violates the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which requires that laws apply equally to everybody, as well as other constitutional provisions.

Transgender service members have shown in recent years that they can serve just as well as anyone else, their lawyers said in court papers. President Joe Biden had rolled back Trump's earlier restrictions.

"An unprecedented degree of animus towards transgender people animates and permeates the ban: it is based on the shocking proposition that transgender people do not exist," the lawyers wrote.

A federal judge in Washington state blocked the policy on March 27, saying “it is not an especially close question.” The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put the ruling on hold, prompting the Trump administration to turn to the Supreme Court.

Here;  Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military ban

Of course the Left went to San Francisco to find a judge who would halt Trump's orders.

And of course, if you were a man who wanted to be a woman and you did enlist, it would be up to the taxpayers to foot the bill for any and all surgeries he wanted.

Thank you President Trump for attempting to put common sense back in America!