Armed forces without persons after sex change
President Donald Trump signed 4 implementing regulations on the armed forces on Monday, including 1 prohibiting transsexual military service and the another limiting initiatives for diversity, equality and integration in the army.
The Transsexual Military Service Regulation, entitled ‘Priority of Excellence and Military Preparedness’, restores Trump's policies from his first word of office and repeals president Joe Biden's regulation, which enabled transsexual persons to join the military, as well as ensuring that the medical costs associated with the transformation process already serving.
How can we read in the regulation:
The policy of the United States government is to establish advanced standards of military readiness, mortality, consistency, integrity, humility, uniformity and integrity. This policy is incompatible with medical, surgical and intellectual restrictions on persons with sex dysphoria. This policy is besides incompatible with the changing usage of pronouns or the usage of pronouns that incorrectly reflect the sex of the individual.
How's that going to work out?
The Regulation obliges the Department of Defence to update medical standards within 60 days, to immediately halt the usage of pronouns based on sex identity and to prohibit persons assigned to male sex at birth from women's sleeping, dressing and bathing rooms.
The implementation of the regulation will take any time, so transgender soldiers will not be immediately removed from service. It is not yet clear how soldiers will be treated who benefit from wellness care related to the transition process under the Tricare programme, or military medical care system. In December, Biden signed a defence bill that prohibits the financing of child-supporting sex-affirming care for transgender soldiers, meaning that this form of care had already been banned.
However, there is another problem here, as the Pentagon has in fresh years stated that it is incapable to find the exact number of transsexual soldiers due to the fact that military services do not keep specified records. Many data are limited by medical privacy regulations. The estimated number of transsexual soldiers is not precisely known due to the fact that there are respective reports on this subject. Over the years, it was believed that it could be 2,150 and even 15,500 soldiers. Officials can be very hard to identify in any cases.
Protest against the Regulation
On Tuesday, transgenders who are members of the military service, supported by LGBTQ rights organizations, filed a suit against the White home order, which prohibits transgender servicers in the army. Colonel Bree Fram's Space Force, a transgender female who revealed her identity and went through a transformation process during her service, said in an interview with ABC News that a ban on service to transgenders could “bring collective harm to our national security”.
The lawsuit, filed by the plaintiffs represented by GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, demands that Secretary of defence Pete Hegseth ‘return the existing standards of acceptance and maintenance in military service, replacing them with a policy declaring them incompatible with the 'high standards' laid down in the Implementing Regulation’.
Sasha Buchert, an older lawyer at Lambda Legal, who represented the reasons for the case and temporarily blocked a akin order in 2017 during Trump's first term, described the fresh order as cruel and stated that "it was threatening the safety of our country". In a conversation with ABC News, she added that this regulation would force transgender persons to “look back” and “appear inferior badges to them”.
Buchert announced that her organization and the run for Human Rights would besides file a suit against the fresh order.
