The Supreme Court of the United States decided on Tuesday (6) that Donald Trump’s government may begin to immediately apply the prohibition to transgender military.
The decision represents a great victory for the president in his attempt to make the Supreme Court authorize several parts of his agenda for the second term, which were blocked by lower courts that analyze dozens of contestations to their policies.
The three liberal members of the Supreme Court publicly disagreed with the decision.
Understand the prohibition
During Trump’s first term, which began in 2017 and ended in 2021, the Supreme Court allowed him to apply a ban similar to transgender military.
However, this prohibition was later revoked by President Joe Biden.
With the new ban, “military personnel who have a current diagnosis or history of gender dysphoria, or who have symptoms consistent with it, will be processed to disconnect military service,” according to a memorandum that describes the policy.
Pentagon will not allow transgender Americans to join any military force.
In 2018, an independent research institute estimated that there were 14,000 transgender soldiers in American military service. However, it is not yet clear how many transgender individuals serve in the American Armed Forces.
A high US defense official said before CNN that there are 4,240 active military personnel from the reserve and national guard diagnosed with gender dysphoria, defined as the psychological suffering that an individual feels when his gender identity differs from his birth genre. But not every transgender individual has gender dysphoria.
This content was originally published in a US Supreme Court allows for prohibition of transgender military personnel on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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