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Supreme Court overturns Tacoma judge, allows Trump ban on transgender members of military

May 6, 2025, 11:36 AM | Updated: 1:54 pm

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The Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, Feb. 13, 2016. (File photo: Jon Elswick, AP)

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罢丑别听聽on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump鈥檚 administration to enforce聽, while legal challenges proceed.

The court acted in the dispute over a聽聽that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service.

The court鈥檚 three liberal justices said they would have kept the policy on hold.

Just after beginning his second term in January, Trump moved aggressively to roll back聽. Among the Republican president鈥檚 actions was an executive order that claims the sexual identity of transgender service members 鈥渃onflicts with a soldier鈥檚 commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one鈥檚 personal life鈥 and is harmful to military readiness.

In response, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth聽聽that gives the military services 30 days to figure out how they will seek out and identify transgender service members to聽.

Three federal judges had ruled against the ban.

Tacoma judge blocks ban

In the case the justices acted in Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle in Tacoma had ruled for several long-serving transgender military members who say that the ban is insulting and discriminatory and that their firing would cause lasting damage to their careers and reputations.

鈥淭he government has provided no evidence supporting the conclusion that military readiness, unit cohesion, lethality, or any of the other touchstone phrases long used to exclude various groups from service have in fact been adversely impacted by open transgender service,鈥 Settle wrote in .

The Trump administration offered no explanation as to why transgender troops, who have been able to serve openly over the past four years with no evidence of problems, should suddenly be banned, Settle wrote. The judge is an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush and is a former captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps.

Settle imposed a nationwide hold on the policy and a federal appeals court rejected the administration鈥檚 emergency plea. The Justice Department then turned to the Supreme Court.

The policy also has been blocked by a federal judge in the nation鈥檚 capital, but that ruling has been temporarily halted by a federal appeals court, which heard arguments last month. The three-judge panel, which includes two judges appointed by Trump during his first term, appeared to be in favor of the administration鈥檚 position.

In a more limited ruling, a judge in New Jersey also has聽聽from removing two transgender men, saying they showed their separation would cause lasting damage to their careers and reputations that no monetary settlement could repair.

Contributing: The Associated Press; Julia Dallas, MyNorthwest

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