By james art 
Washington (AP) – Advanced groups are scheduled to bring the first case Tuesday, challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order for the Pentagon to review his transsexual policy, probably a ban on their service in the armed forces.
This is the same legal team that spent years fighting Trump’s ban on transgender troops in his first administration, tying him in the courts before then President Joe Biden rejected him when he took office.
Trump’s new order, signed on Monday, claims that the sexual identity of the members of the Transginal Service “contradicts the soldier’s commitment to an honorary, righteous and disciplined lifestyle” and is harmful to military readiness. It requires the Minister of Defense Pete Heget to issue a revised policy.
“The law is very clear that the government cannot establish the policies of disapproval of certain groups of people. This is Animus. And the laws based on the animus are assumed to be invalid and non -constitutional, “said Shannon Minter, a legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.
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