{"id":74275,"date":"2017-08-28T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74275"},"modified":"2017-08-28T13:27:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:27:37","slug":"sjws-sue-trump-for-transgender-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74275","title":{"rendered":"SJWs sue Trump for Transgender ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/348242-aclu-sues-trump-over-transgender-ban\">The Hill<\/a>, the ACLU is suing the Trump Administration and the American taxpayers for the Transgender ban that the President re-instituted last Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: We&#39;re taking <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> to court to challenge the unconstitutional transgender military ban. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/udV6P1hIJh\">pic.twitter.com\/udV6P1hIJh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ACLU National (@ACLU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACLU\/status\/902162131386236932\">August 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>My inbox is jam-packed with heartbreaking stories of transgender people who were banned from military last year and now they are banned once again. The Human Rights Campaign claims that they are represented in a law suit against American tax payers by Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis ban not only wrongfully prevents patriotic, talented Americans from serving, it also compromises the safety and security of our country,\u201d Lambda Legal Senior Attorney Peter Renn said. \u201cThousands of current service members are transgender, and many have been serving openly, courageously and successfully in the U.S. military for more than a year\u2014not to mention the previous decades when many were forced to serve in silence. Once again attacking a vulnerable population based on bias, political opportunism and demonstrably untrue \u2018alternative facts,\u2019 President Trump is denying brave men and women the opportunity to serve our country without any legitimate justification whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe promised that we would sue if the president took this action. The law is on our side; justice is on our side,&#8221; said Peter Perkowski, Legal Director for OutServe-SLDN. &#8220;And we are on the side of every single transgender service member and those who want to serve. The nation\u2019s courts exist to protect the people whom tyrants would otherwise abuse. Trump can\u2019t tweet his way out of this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN filed the lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The individual plaintiffs, all of whom are transgender, include: Ryan Karnoski, a 22-year-old Seattle man who currently works as a social worker and wishes to become an officer doing social work for the military; Staff Sergeant Cathrine (\u201cKatie\u201d) Schmid, a 33-year-old woman and 12-year member of the U.S. Army currently serving in Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington, who has applied to become an Army Warrant Officer; and Drew Layne, a high-school student from Corpus Christi, Texas, who is about to turn 17 and, with parental support, wants to join the Air Force. HRC and Gender Justice League have joined the lawsuit on behalf of their transgender members who are harmed by the ban.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They keep using that word &#8220;uncontitutional&#8221; but I don&#8217;t think they know what it means. <\/p>\n<p>Of course others are piling on;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Soon after, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advocates &#038; Defenders filed a lawsuit on behalf of five transgender service members, arguing the policy change violates the equal protection component of the due process clauses of the Fifth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-page complaint, filed by the ACLU\u2019s Maryland Chapter on behalf of six military service members in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, is embedded with Trump\u2019s tweets and claims the ban not only violates the Fifth Amendment but is invalid on its face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know that the Fifth Amendment allows for people with diagnosed mental illness to serve in the military. The Fifth Amendment says;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing to do with military service. I guess I should sue the government to allow me to back in the service &#8211; the fact that I&#8217;m too old and in a wheelchair shouldn&#8217;t affect my eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s not about service &#8211; they could all serve as contractors to the Defense Department, or DoD employees &#8211; they want the medical benefits that would accompany uniformed service, for their genital alterations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Hill, the ACLU is suing the Trump Administration and the American taxpayers for &hellip; <a title=\"SJWs sue Trump for Transgender ban\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74275\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SJWs sue Trump for Transgender ban<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}