LEGAL/LGBTQ/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s three-tweet plan to stop transgender individuals from serving in the military has yet to be clarified or implemented, but as it stands could run headlong into established case law.
The same is true for the position the Trump administration took late on Wednesday [7-26-17], declaring that federal anti-discrimination law does not cover people suing based on sexual orientation.
Both stances hit the LGBT community hard, and plainly arise from a deeper administration interest in countering growing legal protections for claims tied to sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT rights constitute one of the most contentious and evolving areas of litigation today. In 2015, the US Supreme Court declared a right to same-sex marriage nationwide. Since then myriad challenges have been marching toward the justices, including one to be heard in the term that begins in the fall from the Christian owner of a Colorado bakery that refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple.
Transgender claims, related to firings in the workplace and bathroom use in schools, are also filling court dockets.”
-Joan Biskupic, “Trump’s LGBT moves could crash in courts,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, July 27, 2017 03:23pm