The United States President Donald Trump’s administration has on Thursday asked the nation’s top Supreme Court to temporarily halt the recruitment of transgender people in the US military services, with pending the overall outcome of an ongoing battle – legal.
The Trump’s administration has said that there was “too great a risk to military effectiveness and lethality” in order to allow the transgender people for serving openly – the policy which was enacted under the former US President Barack Obama.
Since the policy was made, it has allowed the military forces to begin accepting the transgender people (recruits) since July 1, 2017, under the policy. But however, Trump administration has forwarded the deadline to January 1, 2018, before deciding to reverse the policy fully and completely.
However, the ban on recruiting transgender people under the US military services was always a challenge to the court of the US, with leading to always an updated policy, which also used to contains many major restriction over transgender services, and the fact, that which was also went suspended because of lots of similarities to the original policy measures.
The US government has appealed in the Supreme Court and asked the court overhearing the case and also the pending its all final decision, the court on Thursday, has requested it to suspend all rulings of the US lower courts.
The Trump administration has argued saying, “the nationwide injunction would … remain in place for at least another year and likely well into 2020 — a period too long for the military to be forced to maintain a policy that it has determined, in its professional judgment, to be contrary to the nation’s interests.”