两个领先的性少数群体+倡导组织“拉姆达法律和人权运动”(lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign)周四提起联邦诉讼，挑战特朗普政府禁止跨性别者在军队服役的行政命令。
这诉讼，该诉讼是代表六名现役跨性别服役人员、一名寻求参军的跨性别者以及西雅图人权组织性别公正联盟向华盛顿西区美国地方法院提起的。
“通过明确排除变性人，2025年的军事禁令和相关的联邦政策和指令违反了第五修正案的平等保护和正当程序保障以及第一修正案的言论自由保障，”诉讼称。“它们缺乏任何合法或合理的理由，更不用说所需要的令人信服和极具说服力的理由了。因此，原告寻求宣告性的、初步的和永久的禁令性救济。
美国(United States的缩写)海军据诉讼称，已在军队服役19年的指挥官艾米丽·霍金·先令(Emily“Hawking”Shilling)在一份声明中批评了这项禁令，称这项措施“与战备或凝聚力无关，当然也与功绩无关。”
“这是关于排斥和背叛，故意针对我们这些自愿服务的人，仅仅是因为他们有勇气和正直来实现我们的真理，”先令说，
这起诉讼发生在唐纳德·特朗普总统签署了一项美国总统之行政命令1月28日，废除了拜登政府基于性别身份允许跨性别服役人员公开服役的政策。
该命令指示国防部修改五角大楼关于跨性别服役人员的政策，并表示“表达与个人性别不同的虚假“性别认同”不能满足服兵役所需的严格标准。”
该命令进一步指出，接受性别确认医疗护理是身体和精神上“与现役不相容”的条件之一。
“与军事使命和国防部的长期政策一致，表达与个人性别不同的虚假‘性别认同’不能满足服兵役所需的严格标准，”该命令继续说道。
在特朗普于1月20日签署相关命令一周后，禁止军队中跨性别服役人员的行政命令出台，该命令宣布美国政府将只承认一个人出生时的性别。
“像我这样的跨性别服役人员天生不值得信任或缺乏荣誉的说法是对所有献身于保卫这个国家的人的侮辱，”先令在声明中说。
特朗普在他的第一个任期内发布了一项类似的命令，该命令在法院受到挑战，现在人权委员会和Lambda Legal已经加入了其他领先的倡导团体，在法院挑战该命令。
1月28日，GLAD Law和全国女同性恋权利中心也代表六名变性军人对特朗普政府提起诉讼。
美国广播公司新闻已经联系了特朗普政府，但没有立即回复置评请求。
Service members sue Trump administration over transgender military service ban
Lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign, two leading LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday challenging the Trump administration over the president’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military.
Thelawsuit,which was obtained by ABC News, was filed in the U.S. District Court-Western District of Washington on behalf of six active duty transgender service members, a transgender person seeking to enlist in the military, as well as Seattle human rights organization Gender Justice League.
"By categorically excluding transgender people, the 2025 Military Ban and related federal policy and directives violate the equal protection and due process guarantees of the Fifth Amendment and the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment," the lawsuit said. "They lack any legitimate or rational justification, let alone the compelling and exceedingly persuasive ones required. Accordingly, Plaintiffs seek declaratory, and preliminary and permanent injunctive, relief."
U.S.NavyCommander Emily "Hawking" Shilling, who according to the lawsuit has been serving in the military for 19 years, criticized the ban in a statement, saying that the measure is "not about readiness or cohesion, and it is certainly not about merit."
"It is about exclusion and betrayal, purposely targeting those of us who volunteered to serve, simply for having the courage and integrity to live our truth," Shilling said,
The lawsuit comes after President Donald Trump signed anexecutive orderon Jan. 28, rescinding Biden administration policies that permitted transgender service members to serve openly in the military based on their gender identity.
The order directed the Department of Defense to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender service members and stated that "expressing a false "gender identity" divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service."
The order further argued that receiving gender-affirming medical care is one of the conditions that is physically and mentally "incompatible with active duty."
"Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false 'gender identity' divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service," the order continued.
The executive order banning transgender service members in the military came one week after Trump signed a related order on Jan. 20, declaring that theU.S. government will only recognize a person’s gender assigned at birth.
"The assertion that transgender service members like myself are inherently untrustworthy or lack honor is an insult to all who have dedicated their lives to defending this country," Shilling said in the statement.
Trump issued a similar order during his first term in office that was challenged in the courts and now HRC and Lambda Legal have joined other leading advocacy groups in challenging the order in the courts.
GLAD Law and The National Center for Lesbian Rights also filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of six transgender service members on Jan. 28.
ABC News has reached out to the Trump administration but a request for comment was not immediately returned.
