When three members of the service filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in March due to the sexually transformed military embargo, they were hoping to continue serving their country while their cases were moving in the Federal Court.
However, after the Supreme Court ruled last week that the Trump administration could impose a ban amid suspended lawsuits, CMDR. Emily Sheling, Miguor Erika Vandal, told the second Lieutenant Nicholas Talbot that ABC News feels that the carpet was pulled under it.
CMDR. Emily Sheling.
With the permission of Emily Sheling
Shillin described the decorated navy as “tragic.”
Talbot, a group leader in the US Army Reserve from Ohio, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in 2017 for the first military ban on transgender people.
“It is so strange that we must continue to do so,” he said.
Second Lieutenant Nicholas Talbot was seen in this unknown image.
With the permission of Nicholas Talbot
In March, Federal Judges granted preliminary judicial orders in Talbot against Trump, Shillling and Trump, preventing the Ministry of Defense from starting secession procedures against any member of the service of transgender people during the outstanding cases.
In granting a judicial order in Talbot, the American boycott judge, Anna Reyes, said that the embargo continues an unfortunate history of the army except for the marginalized judge of the “concession of service”, and in granting a judicial order in the policy of Shillin, the American boycott judge said, “It cannot be granted” and unoccupied, and with an unfamiliar policy of the face. “
Vandal, another prosecutor in the Talbot case, who served in the army for 14 years, told ABC News that the Supreme Court’s decision on May 6 was a “blow.”
Major Erica Vandal
With the permission of Erica Vandal
With their suspended cases in court, Shillling, Vandal and Talbott are now facing what they say is a polite decision: voluntarily separate from the army or leaving.
“Informed harm”
According to a memorandum issued by Defense Minister Beit Higseth last week after the Supreme Court ruling, approximately 1,000 service members who were defined by themselves as suffering from dysmenor. The voluntary separation process will begin.
The memorandum said that the members of the transgender service have until June 6 to identify the self and start the voluntary separation process, while the transgender members who work in their reserve forces until July 7 to voluntarily separate.
A new memorandum issued by the Pentagon Minister’s office for employees and preparedness on Thursday put some directives related to those who do not specify themselves.
According to the memo, military leaders will be informed on June 6 of the identification of people in their units who have a diagnosis or history of dyslexia between the sexes or present symptoms consistent with dysphagia. This will start referring to an annual health examination that begins with what can be a long process for every person that can lead to removing it from the army.
CMDR. Emily Sheling.
With the permission of Emily Sheling
Shillling is the head of Sparta Pide, an organization that defends 2,400 sexually transformed people in the army and those who hope to join. She said that although legal issues are “very alive”, the imposition of the embargo in the meantime causes “irreplaceable harm to” people’s professions. “
The ruling is still commenting on the Talbot order in the Court of Appeal in Talbot, but the Supreme Court’s decision 6-3, which raises a Shillin judicial order affects all prosecutors and members of the transgender service.
The Supreme Court did not explain its decision, but she said that the matter would end if the judges would take the case on one foundation and issue a ruling that he issued. Shelling, a qualified retirement officer in 20 years of service in September, said she is seeking a legal advisor and is still “thinking” in her decision.
The Pentagon estimates more than 4,200 members of the National Service, the National Guard and the Reserve Service have a gender sexual diagnosis, which is the army scale to track the number of transgender forces. Da`wah groups have developed the actual number of transit service members, about 15,000.
There are 2.1 million members of the National Service and the National Guard.
Major Erica Vandal
With the permission of Erica Vandal
“The uncertainty” during this time was a “burden” over her family, “said Vandal, who has two children and is based on Fort Dram in New York.
She said, “I am the only breadwinner,” she said, adding that “the army affects each side” the life of her family – from housing and health care, to their social structures.
“Who am I praying?”
The Trump administration has been announced on the sexual service members of the transgender in an executive order on January 27, when President Donald Trump ordered the Ministry of Defense Review of the policy that allows the transgender forces to publicly serve.
The matter said that “the expression of” wrong sexual identity “is different from the genus of the individual cannot fulfill the strict standards necessary for military service.”
It was also argued that receiving gender medical care is one of the cases that do not correspond to the active and mental service. “
Higseth, who celebrated the decision of the Supreme Court and made controversial statements about the transgender forces last week, chanted this feeling in the February 7 note, saying that “the efforts made to divide our forces along the identity lines weaken our strength and make us at risk.”
CMDR. Emily Sheling.
With the permission of Emily Sheling
Vandal and Chilling said that the administration’s words contradict their trips.
Vandal said: “If there is anything, I feel more honest in serving who I am praying, instead of hiding this entire aspect of me, and I think it is in the end, he made me a better leader,” Vandal said.
Vandal has served since 2011 and Warclin since 2005. During the largest part of their work, “Do not ask, do not tell” (DADT), an American military policy allowed from 1993 to 2011 to serve LGBTQ+ for individuals in the army as long as they did not reveal their sexual inclinations.
This policy was canceled in 2011, but sexual service members are still prohibited from public service in the army until 2016, when President Barack Obama allowed them at the time to publicly serve for the first time.
Major Erica Vandal
With the permission of Erica Vandal
The brief separation of the open service ended during the Obama era when Trump took office in 2017 and issued his first ban on sexually transformed military personnel, which Biden reflected in 2021 and then was returned by Trump in 2025.
“[Those policies] “He prevented me from embracing whoever I was and went out to the world as a whole,” Vandal said.
Shelling told ABC News that the fear of losing her job and that her family prevented her from going out for years. But in 2019, according to Trump’s first ban, she realized that she was no longer able to put a “interface.”
She said: “You reach this point where you are somewhat on this burning bridge, either you cross it or nothing remains anything.”
Shiling said that while going out “cost me everything”, she eventually allowed her to become a “better leader” in the army and start a new “wonderful” chapter with her family.
“Not the end of the war”
In the midst of changing policies, Talbot said it took nine years to be able to recruit reserves. In 2017, the Trump administration first took over the first time by becoming a prosecutor in Stockman against Trump, a federal case that challenges the first Trump ban. He was twenty -three years old and tries to recruit publicly.
He said: “One of the doors was closing and I must find another door that was opened and I know if the road I could follow.”
Second Lieutenant Nicholas Talbot is a photographer with his late grandmother, Roda Denin.
With the permission of Nicholas Talbot
Talbot, who had been dreaming of joining the army since he was a child, said that the Trump administration’s challenge in 2017 was a “heavy decision”, but he was encouraged to speak by his late grandmother Roda Denin.
While Stockmann was still suspended in the Federal Court, Biden issued an executive order in 2021 to cancel the Trump ban, making it possible for transgender members to serve and claim to publicly.
When Trump issued his second ban in January, Talbot said that the prosecution was a “easy” decision.
While facing his second legal challenge and another challenge in birds, Talbot said he was holding “hope.”
“This is just a battle. This is not the end of the war,” he said.
Although Jeddah Talbot died in 2020, he says that her encouragement still inspires him.
“I would like to think it will be proud of me,” he told ABC News. “I’m sure it will be incredibly supportive of what I do.”
In this report, this report contributed to this report, Louis Martinez contributed to ABC News, Devin Dwyer and Peter Charalbous in this report.
