To the editor: As soon as once more, the conservative members of the Supreme Court docket demonstrated their collective ignorance in lifting the decrease court docket’s ban on the Protection Division’s transfer to take away transgender people from lively army service (“Supreme Court allows Trump’s ban on transgender troops,” Could 6). This units the stage for the removing of hundreds of service personnel earlier than the lawsuit filed in response is settled on its deserves — leading to pointless chaos if the plaintiffs prevail on the deserves and are returned to lively responsibility.
Extra necessary, the rationale superior in assist of the federal government’s argument for discharging these presently serving (that transgender personnel are “incompatible” with army service) is specious at greatest. One named plaintiff is a 20-year Navy fighter pilot who has flown greater than 60 fight missions. How far more appropriate might she be?
Noel Johnson, Glendale
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To the editor: I imagine that transgender individuals ought to be allowed to serve within the army. They need to be required to satisfy the identical requirements as cisgender women and men, with out stigma or bias in opposition to their gender id. Transgender people are able to assembly the army necessities for psychological and bodily well being.
There’s been no proof that exhibits that having transgender service members has negatively affected the army’s cohesion and readiness. If a transgender individual qualifies to serve their nation, they need to be allowed to serve proudly.
Emma Guilford, Rohnert Park, Calif.
