【9月30日】看軍聞學英語

■泰戈爾

原文：

The U.S. Court of Appeals ruling follows a similar ruling delivered last year as part of ongoing legal battles.

A three-panel court blocked the Trump administration from banning transgender troops from the United States military, though it did not alter precedent for new troops wanting to enlist.

The 2-1 ruling, issued Monday by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, blocks the administration from removing currently enlisted transgender service members but continues to allow the policy to continue for new transgender recruits. The U.S. Supreme Court in a party-line decision granted the Trump administration’s request to enforce a Department of Defense policy banning transgender individuals from serving in the military while legal challenges in lower courts continued. Legal battles remain ongoing in lower court settings.

The policy "appears to be driven by the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group: persons who identify as transgender," Judge Robert Wilkins-nominated to the bench by former President Barack Obama-wrote for the majority on Monday, according to the Associated Press.

中譯：

美國聯邦上訴法院做出的判決，是延續去年在一系列持續進行的法律訴訟中所做出的類似判決。

由3名法官組成的合議庭阻止了川普政府禁止跨性別軍人在美國軍隊中服役，不過該判決並未改變有意應徵入伍之新兵的既有先例。

這項由美國哥倫比亞特區聯邦上訴法院3名法官合議庭於週一做出的2比1判決，阻止了政府汰除目前已入伍的現役跨性別軍人，但允許該政策繼續適用於新的跨性別募兵對象。美國最高法院以符合黨派立場的投票結果，批准了川普政府的請求，允許戰爭部在下級法院法律訴訟仍在進行期間，強制執行禁止跨性別人士在軍中服役的政策。目前下級法院的法律戰仍在持續進行中。

根據美聯社報導，由前總統歐巴馬提名的多數派法官威爾金斯在週一的多數意見書中寫道，這項政策「似乎是出於傷害一個在政治上不受歡迎之群體（即跨性別認同者）的純粹意圖。」

-關鍵軍語-

※troops：部隊

※enlisted：現役的