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Do you think that the Trump administration will comply to a court order? Or will they ignore or drag their feet in complying with the order?

Federal Court To Pentagon: Turn Over Documents Used to Justify Transgender Military Ban
Modern Military Association of America
By Stephen Peters
December 18th, 2019

Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington ordered the Department of Defense to turn over documents that it has withheld regarding the Trump-Pence administration’s ban on open military service by transgender people, including its purported justifications for the policy.

“The government cannot conceal the truth about the development of this discriminatory policy and the absence of any justification for excluding qualified transgender people from serving our country,” Lambda Legal Counsel Peter Renn said.

“We look forward to the court shining a light onto what the government has fought very hard to hide. There is no cloak big enough to hide the deficiencies of the Pentagon’s rushed plan, which was cobbled together after-the-fact to backfill a justification for President Trump’s arbitrary tweets. We look forward to having our day in court when we can prove at trial why this ban remains rank discrimination that cannot stand.  This ruling brings us one step closer to that day.”

In June 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit confirmed that the government’s policy still discriminates against transgender people and is subject to heightened scrutiny by the courts.  It directed the district court to consider its discovery rulings with that legal framework in mind.

I think that they don’t have any justification in barring us from military service, it is all based on hating us and the religious right wing Christians. I don’t think that they have any paperwork on the new policy.

“We deserve transparency when it comes to major policies that impact the wellbeing of our troops,” said HRC National Press Secretary Sarah McBride. “This decision will help us show the discriminatory agenda driving this administration, and demonstrate what is already clear, this ban is based on nothing more than personal animus. This is a critical win in the fight to protect transgender service members, and we thank Lambda Legal and MMAA for their representation in this case.”

I think Trump said make it happen and then they tried to justify the discrimiantion.