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New NCLR and GLAD 多伊诉特朗普案 Court Filing Reveals Trump Administration is Distorting Evidence to Prevent Trans Enlistment

 

(WASHINGTON, D.C., December 8, 2017)—Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) filed their opposition to yesterday’s Trump administration request for a partial stay in Doe v. Trump, the first legal challenge filed against Trump’s transgender military ban. If granted, the stay would permit the Trump administration to once again delay accepting transgender recruits, which it has been ordered to do starting on January 1, 2018. Today’s NCLR and GLAD filing debunks Trump administration claims that the military is not ready to accept transgender recruits on January 1, citing a Palm Center policy report calling out the Trump administration for filing a court document that “rewrites the history of transgender military policy and distorts the evidence.”

“Trump administration claims that our highly sophisticated and capable military is unprepared to implement a minor policy change after years of preparation are simply not credible,” said NCLR法律总监Shannon Minter. “The military has studied this issue extensively and determined that permitting qualified transgender people to enlist and serve will only strengthen our nation’s armed forces.”

“This question has been asked and answered already by this Court,” said GLAD Transgender Rights Project Director Jennifer Levi. “The military has had nearly a year and a half to be ready to implement an enlistment policy its own leaders created and adopted. It strains credulity to argue it is not prepared to do so. It’s time to move forward and allow enlistment by qualified transgender Americans who wish to serve.”

Today’s filing includes declarations from both former United States Secretary of the Navy Raymond Edwin Mabus, Jr. 和 military expert, scholar, and veteran Dr. George Richard Brown. Former Secretary Mabus stated that based on his experience, allowing transgender candidates to enlist is not a complicated process and that nearly all of the necessary preparation had been completed when he left office more than a year ago: “It is inconsistent with my understanding of the status of those efforts and the working of military personnel to conclude that the military would not be prepared almost a year later—and six months after the date on which the policy was originally scheduled to take effect.” Dr. Brown echoed this conclusion: “Based on my knowledge and experience, I do not agree that the military will be either unprepared or overwhelmed on January 1, 2018 to implement the transgender enlistment policy.”

在 多伊诉特朗普案, NCLR and GLAD argue that Trump’s ban, first announced in a series of tweets, is irresponsible and discriminatory because qualified and able transgender Americans who wish to enlist have been barred from doing so and transgender service members have been demeaned and stigmatized and faced with the prospect of discharge and the loss of their professions, livelihoods, health care, and the post-military retirement they have worked hard to earn.

NCLR and GLAD have been at the center of the legal fight challenging President Trump’s military ban since filing 多伊诉特朗普案, the first of four cases filed against the ban, on August 9. The Trump administration lost the first round and appealed Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s October 30 nationwide preliminary injunction to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, one court level below the United States Supreme Court. This preliminary injunction temporarily halts Trump’s ban and returns things to the status quo while the legal challenge makes its way through the courts.     

 The two organizations are also co-counsel in a second suit challenging the ban, 斯托克曼诉特朗普案, brought by 加州平等组织. Oral argument in 斯托克曼诉特朗普案 is scheduled for Monday, December 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

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通过战略诉讼、公共政策倡导和教育，GLBTQ 法律倡导者和辩护人致力于在新英格兰和全国范围内创建一个没有基于性别认同和表达、艾滋病毒状况和性取向的歧视的公正社会。 www.GLAD.org

全国女同性恋权利中心是一个全国性的法律组织，致力于通过诉讼、公共政策倡导和公共教育来促进女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性人群体的人权和公民权利。 www.NCLRights.org

联系方式： 

Amanda Johnston, Director of Public Affairs & Education, ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769

Lauren Gray, Communications Director, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099