Appeals court sides with Trump on transgender military ban

[Wingnut]

BY REBECCA KHEEL - 01/04/19 10:41 AM EST
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a lower court’s ruling blocking President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military from taking effect.

The ruling hands Trump a win in a case that has seen several courts block the policy. But the policy still cannot take effect because of those other injunctions, which applied nationwide.

“Although today’s decision is not a final determination on the merits, we must recognize that the Mattis Plan plausibly relies upon the ‘considered professional judgment’ of ‘appropriate military officials’ ... and appears to permit some transgender individuals to serve in the military consistent with established military mental health, physical health, and sex-based standards,” wrote a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/423862-appeals-court-sides-with-trump-on-transgender-military-ban

[verga]

Sounds fair to me

[mountaineer]

appears to permit some transgender individuals to serve in the military consistent with established military mental health ... standards

I look forward to hearing the convoluted reasoning by which a so-called transgendered person might be termed anything but mentally ill.

[EdJames]

I look forward to hearing the convoluted reasoning by which a so-called transgendered person might be termed anything but mentally ill.

Ehh, I'm not so sure that you want to hear it....  I certainly don't!

[mountaineer]

Ehh, I'm not so sure that you want to hear it....  I certainly don't!

You're probably right!