The Columbus Dispatch published a USA Today article in which Francesca Chambers reported, President Donald Trump "has signed executive orders since returning to office barring service by transgender troops and establishing male and female as the only sexes recognized by the federal government.

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring transgender people from enlisting and serving openly in the military. Being trans, Trump writes, “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle.”

The Trump administration is moving much faster than the court system in order to effectuate preferred policy goals, the plaintiffs argue. The post ‘Stripped of the honor’: Transgender service members push judge for emergency pause on Trump’s military ban first appeared on Law & Crime.

President Donald Trump has launched his second bid to oust all transgender troops from the military, and once again it will be headed to the courts to sort it out

The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) filed a federal lawsuit on January 28 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Trump Administration in response to the order, saying the ban violates equal protection.

The order reinstates a policy from Trump's first term that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already in the military from transitioning.

President Donald Trump on Monday announced he had signed four executive orders that will reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces; gutting the military’s diversity,

Trump’s Monday evening executive order reinstates a ban on service he instituted during his first term. That policy was reversed with a 2021 directive under President Joe Biden. The policy prohibits transgender enlistment and ongoing service, claiming it undermines readiness and unit cohesion.

GLAD Law and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a federal suit on behalf of six transgender service members and two trans people seeking to enlist.

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Monday to reshape the military with a focus on transgender service members, troops who were dismissed for refusing COVID-19 mandates and a missile defense shield.