SCOTUS Allows Transgender Military Ban Enforcement

Well, we knew it could happen and it has. We are now feeling the effects of a 100% conservative Supreme Court. To be honest, I don't know why anyone in the LGBT community would want to risk their lives for people who hate them, but I'm not a very good person.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the Trump administration's request to allow it to temporarily enforce its restrictions on transgender people serving in the military.

The justices stayed district court injunctions that blocked the new policy pending a ruling in the Ninth Circuit on the government's appeal.

The court, however, did not agree to review the legality of the new policy as the administration had asked.

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President Just Asked SCOTUS to Allow Transgender Military Ban

I will never understand why it's so difficult for anyone to accept LGBT into the military. They are, essentially, willing to lay down their life for your freedom. Maybe it's that you don't want to be indebted to them in that way? What if all the straight men and women quit the military across the board because they didn't want to risk their lives if they were going to reproduce?

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up three cases challenging the administration's repeated efforts to bar transgender people from serving in the military. The move is the latest unusual filing at the high court by an administration that appears eager to leapfrog over appeals courts that have sided previously with challengers to the administration's policies.

The effort to reverse Obama-era policies allowing for open transgender military service began when President Donald Trump tweeted out news of the ban in July 2017 and has been met with heavy skepticism from courts around the country since that morning.

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