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New NCLR and GLAD 多伊訴川普案 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法律總監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 多伊訴川普案, 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 多伊訴川普案, 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, 斯托克曼訴川普案, brought by 加州平等組織. Oral argument in 斯托克曼訴川普案 is scheduled for Monday, December 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

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透過策略性訴訟、公共政策倡議和教育，GLBTQ 法律倡導者和辯護人致力於在新英格蘭和全國範圍內創建一個沒有基於性別認同和表達、愛滋病毒狀況和性取向的歧視的公正社會。 www.GLAD.org

全國女同性戀權利中心是一個全國性的法律組織，致力於透過訴訟、公共政策倡議和公共教育來促進女同性戀、男同性戀、雙性戀和跨性別群體的人權和公民權利。 www.NCLRights.org

聯絡方式： 

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

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