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Supreme Court allows Trump's ban on transgender troops to take effect

2025-05-07

[10News] The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its ban on transgender individuals serving in the military.

The White House had asked the high court to lift a lower court’s injunction — a request the justices granted. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have denied the application.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military. The order argued that the presence of transgender service members "conflicts with the soldier’s commitment" and harms military readiness.

In March, U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle — a George W. Bush appointee — ruled in favor of transgender service members challenging the policy. He said that discharging them would damage their careers and reputations.

An Obama-era policy implemented in 2016 allowed transgender individuals to serve openly. But during Trump’s first term, he reversed that policy, issuing a ban that allowed exceptions for active-duty service members who had already begun the transitioning process.

When President Joe Biden took office, the ban was rescinded.

Courtesy of Besoeker, a different angle on the story:

SCOTUS Lets Trump Pentagon Trans Ban Take Effect, for Now

[FOX] The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in lifting a lower court's order that paused the Pentagon's transgender military ban.

In a short order on Tuesday, the high court handed the White House win as Trump seeks to unmake the Biden-era diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agenda. The court stayed a lower court order, allowing the Pentagon policy to take effect. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the administration's appeal and kept the lower court injunction in place.

At issue in the suit, Shilling v. United States, is President Donald Trump's January executive order banning transgender military members. The order required the Department of Defense to update its guidance regarding "trans-identifying medical standards for military service" and to "rescind guidance inconsistent with military readiness."

And from Skidmark, this necessary background: Social Media Reacts To HHS Review On Trans Treatments That Debunks Nike Study: ‘Just Don’t Do It’

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