{"id":76225,"date":"2017-11-28T11:36:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76225"},"modified":"2017-11-28T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:36:52","slug":"u-s-district-court-judge-forces-dod-to-accept-transgender-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76225","title":{"rendered":"U.S. District Court Judge forces DoD to accept transgender troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76226\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76226\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kollar-Kotelly-Article-201708301904.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76226\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/judge-forces-trump-allow-trangender-troops-join-military-724114\">Newsweek<\/a>, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an injuction to block the President&#8217;s order to ban the enlistment of transgender recruits until the Pentagon can complete it&#8217;s review of the pre-2016 ban.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The injunction was issued Monday after lawyers for five unnamed transgender troops sought clarification from Kollar-Kotelly about the extent of a preliminary injunction she issued against Trump\u2019s orders last month.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important clarification because it means the military can\u2019t do an end run around the judge\u2019s decision,\u201d said Jennifer Levi, of the GLBTQ Legal Advocates &#038; Defenders (GLAD) which is representing the soldiers, in an interview with NBC News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/362062-court-military-must-take-transgender-service-members-by-jan-1\">The Hill<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote that her injunction means that the military must continue to follow the policies established by former President Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;June 30, 2016 Directive-type Memorandum,&#8221; which allowed transgender individuals to enlist beginning on January 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any action by any of the Defendants that changes this status quo is preliminarily enjoined,&#8221; Kollar-Kotelly wrote in the Monday memo. <\/p>\n<p>The ruling came after Trump issued a presidential order in August that the military stop enlisting transgender people and not to use funds to pay for gender transition-related surgery. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump reestablished the ban so that the Defense Department could study the issue and it&#8217;s impact on readiness, something that most judges and lawyers don&#8217;t understand. <\/p>\n<p>Folks who are going through the medical procedures for altering their gender assignment can&#8217;t be deployed to combat, and probably couldn&#8217;t fill slots overseas because of a lack of medical facilities that they would need &#8211; this affects the readiness of units to perform in a complex world. <\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s order merely rolled back the policy to the same way it existed through the first seven years of the Obama Administration and two hundred years of military policy before last year.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dave for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Newsweek, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an injuction to block the President&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"U.S. District Court Judge forces DoD to accept transgender troops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76225\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. District Court Judge forces DoD to accept transgender troops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76225","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=76225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}