Judge torches Trump lawyers over ban on trans service members and pronouns

[Jessica_Rose]

Judge torches Trump lawyers over ban on trans service members and pronouns: 'Frankly ridiculous'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-torches-trump-lawyers-over-ban-on-trans-service-members-and-pronouns-frankly-ridiculous/ar-AA1zjdHG?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=790a3195ec1b4f77801e61cb5b8fe5f7&ei=54

Story by Alex Woodward (18 Feb 2025)

During Tuesday's hearing in Washington, D.C., where lawyers for trans service members are challenging Trump's order that has triggered Department of Defense policy blocking gender-affirming healthcare and new trans recruits, a furious District Judge Ana Reyes interrogated Trump's "demeaning," "biologically inaccurate" and "frankly ridiculous" language.

"Would you agree that if the military is negatively impacted [from the use of pronouns], we all have a lot bigger problems than pronoun use?" Reyes asked.

"I can't agree with that," Justice Department attorney Jason Lynch said.

"If you can get me an officer of the United States military to get on the stand and say that because of pronoun usage we are less prepared, I will be the first to buy you a box of cigars," she said.

The order also claims that the "adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual's sex conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one's personal life."

Reyes repeatedly asked whether that language is "demeaning" to transgender people.

Lynch said he could not speak to it in a "constitutional sense."

"I want to know from the government, whether that language expresses animus," said Reyes, suggesting that she could strike against the executive order to prove that it was motivated by prejudice.

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Love always -- Jessica Rose

[Lori Dee]

I love that judge! So many good questions.

[Sephirah]

When I was in the military, the freedom of people to express who they are is something we fought for, and the kind of fascism that deigned to tell people who they are, and have to be, was something we fought against.

How the world changes. In all the worst ways. A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. And maybe one day will be. Not holding my breath, though.

At least there are some people who have a moral compass.