Nic Talbott, a transgender man, was driving his truck in Chicago when his phone started buzzing in July 2017. With just over 50 words on Twitter, his dream to join the military seemed to have been destroyed.
FILE PHOTO: People protest U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender people from serving in any capacity in the U.S. military, in Times Square, in New York City, New York, U.S., July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
While the past three years have been difficult for Talbott and other transgender people who want to join the military, legal experts and activists believe a ruling on Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court barring discrimination against LGBT workers could help those looking to courts around the country to overturn the military's limitations.
But three legal experts said that the Supreme Court decision could help those arguing against the Pentagon ban on transgender troops. “There is a good shot that this ruling will migrate over into the constitutional sphere. So that heightened scrutiny for any discrimination against transgender persons,” Eskridge said.
The policy allowed those military personnel diagnosed with gender dysphoria under Obama’s policy to serve according to their gender identity but set limitations on those diagnosed after April 2019.For him, the Supreme Court ruling provided hope that he could still join the military as an intelligence official in the Army or Air Force.
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