The Trump administration is looking for legal routes to prohibit transgender people from having access to weapons, according to the CNN chain on Thursday.
Senior officials of the Department of Justice would have on the table a proposal to limit the right to carry firearms to trans people.
This decision seeks to “ensure that people with mental illnesses suffering from gender dysphoria cannot obtain firearms while unstable and sick,” said an official of the Department of Justice to CNN.
In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) ceased to consider gender dysphoria as a mental illness and cataloged it as a “condition relative to sexual health.”
However, the administration of President Trump would need to argue this initiative because the federal law requires that a judge declare a mentally poor person before depriving him of his right to possess firearms.
The proposal is in preliminary conversations but is based on an idea that has been fed in conservative media since last week, after Robin Westman executed a shooting at a Catholic School in Minneapolis that left two dead children, before taking their lives.
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According to several media that accessed judicial documents, Westman legally changed his name from Robert to Robin Westman, because “he identified himself as a woman and wanted his name to reflect that identification”, but the authorities did not confirm it.
After a flood of comments, the mayor of the city of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, demanded that attacks against the community cease.
“Anyone who is taking advantage of this situation to demonize our community for any other community has lost its sense of common humanity,” Frey said.
Trump government officials also issued direct comments against trans people after shooting; As the Secretary of National Security, Kristie Noem, who used, in her social networks, pejorative qualifiers against the attacker for changing her name years ago.
During his first nine months in power, Trump has issued different executive orders against the trans community and its members.
The first of these measures was on January 20, the day of his return to power, when the Republican president requested that only two sexes be recognized and a week later forbidden that trans people could provide military service, when claiming to identify with a gender different from that assigned to the birth of “affects cohesion, effectiveness and military standards”.
Another of Trump’s measures against the collective in question was to prohibit trans women and girls participating in sports or circuits that receive state funds and asked different athletic institutions to revoke the records established by transgender people.
With EFE information.
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