Some of the most utterly prominent episodes in American history include using the state’s power against minority groups: black people, indigenous people and gay people, just to name a few. Although these campaigns may have popular support at the moment, history has considered them permanently immoral, illegal and non -American.
Instead of understanding this history, President Trump is borrowing from his worst. One of the first operations of his second term was to order the government to see the gender as an unlawful and discriminatory treatment against transgender citizens. In his inaugural address, he announced, “To date,” then it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two gender: men and women. “
The early days of Mr Trump’s second term have raised many concerns about the steps that are dangerously against the laws and the best interests of the country and its people. But the chaos of the past few weeks should not masked that in this period, it has launched a direct campaign against a single, weak minority as we have seen in generations.
Within hours, this language began trying to exclude transgender people from almost every aspect of the US public life in a series of executive orders and initiatives. Refuse They have valid identification documents such as Passport, Imposed Nationwide ban on medical care for transgender youths, a nationwide ban. Inquest Gender neutral bathroom school, Criminal Help teachers for transgender students and Commanding The Federal Bureau of Prisons forced 1,500 transgender women to be taken into custody.
Transgender was not widely unexpected against people. Anti -transgender politicians spent the least 5 215 million To transperate people people for many social diseases. The Republican Party has seen the rapidly attacked trans rights as a political winner, as it attacked civil rights during Richard Nixon’s presidency and attacked homosexual rights in George W. Bush. The currency was reflected with the speed and happiness that the House Republicans prevented from using women’s restrooms on Capital Hill after the selection of Congress’s first open ordinary transgender member Sara McBride. As far as Mr. Trump is concerned, he won power by making transit people care and devil. Now he is using this power to harm people.
The Trump administration’s attacks have launched a half -decade following the Supreme Court’s decision under the Conservatives in Bostak vs Clayton County that discrimination against transgender people under the 1964 Civil Rights Act is sexual discrimination. “It is impossible to discriminate against a person because of gay. Or transgender, without discriminating against a person based on sex,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote.
It should be acknowledged that society is still suffering from the cultural and policy implications of the rapidly changing gender. There are some issues – such as participating in sports and proper medical care for minors – who have a strong debate, even through those who support large -scale trans rights. There should be room for these conversations. But what should not be discussed is whether the government should target a group of Americans to take away their freedom and dignity so that they can pass into their chosen world. It is a campaign that shows the basic view of oppression and humiliation.
Being frightened is the most irrelevant, because very few people identify as a transgender. They are less than 1 % of the US population. And they are 0.002 % College athletes – a population that has been particularly enraged in culture wars.
In the US military, more than 1 % of the military is transgender. This makes the Pentagon the largest employer of transgender people in the country, and has made military services an important target of the counter -transition.
So it was especially unpleasant and symbolic that one of the new president’s and another Executive Orders It aims to eliminate ordinary transgender soldiers open from armed services and prevent others from joining. In the move, Mr. Trump took the purpose of the two people who raised their lives in their nation and an institution that has historically played a vital role in debating minorities and integration.
The order calls for a federal discrimination against 15,000 to 25,000 Americans who have agreed to put their lives to defend the nation. He presented no evidence that the order would remove the disqualified people from the armed forces or make the United States safe, because there is no one. The language of the order was partially remarkable for its meaning.
The order states, “Expressing different ‘gender identities’ from an individual’s sex cannot meet the strict standards necessary for military services.” “Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical intervention included in it, in one’s personal life, even adopt sexual identity contradictory to a soldier’s sexual dispute for a honorable, true and disciplinary lifestyle.”
Not only does this order delete the honorable service (and Pensionally pensions) Among the soldiers who led the patrol of the pedestrian in Afghanistan and blew up combat missions during Syria. It has been tried to deny that they are present as transgender people. “One person’s claim that he is a woman, and that the need for others who respects this lie is not in line with the desired humility and selflessness of the service member.”
Thousands of transgender soldiers who served with discrimination and honor for almost a decade Lie easily The idea that they are ineligible for service. Meanwhile, the idea that the existence of openly ordinary transgender soldiers is harmful Unit harmonious -There is a long excuse for opponents to allow people, women and homosexuals to serve in the armed forces. Multiple, strict studies. The most comprehensiveThrough the Rand Corporation, inspected other countries that allow transgender soldiers to openly served and “have little or no effect on the unit’s harmony, operational effectiveness or preparation.”
The first Trump administration was thwarted by the courts in 2017 to stop the transgender Americans from serving their country. The Biden administration overturned the policy before the rule of the courts. Transgender soldiers have been openly serving abroad deployment for the past four years, in anger of conservatives. “Transgender people should never be allowed to serve. It’s so easy, “now the Secretary of Defense, Pet Hegsit, has written in his recent book.
Within a few hours of signing it, it was an executive order Challenged in court By Six active duty Transjender service members and two are trying to make a list again. Mr Trump’s executive orders are often ordered by lower courts, and it is important that the president make radical change by the Congress absent-even as he is trying to eliminate these guards. .
Nevertheless, another group of thousands of service members is difficult to imagine, which has led to the willingness of the military out of the military for this reason, due to the willingness to completely follow the performance or orders, in which the country’s hundreds of the country. Groups of military and veterans, barely a secret and elected official.
It is true that American gender is divided by new and changing politics around the identity. But most of the party, regardless of the party, have a joint respect for their fellow citizens who participated in the uniform, picked up the rifle and traveled around the world in defense of the nation.
Targeting Mr. Trump’s transgender Americans will go far beyond the military. And for his corruption, his habit of distributing the people to those worthy of protection, and those who should be placed aside, his habit with those who can be pushed without speaking to others. – Weak group. As these campaigns continue, Americans will perform well to remember the difficult -winning lessons in our history.
