A judge blocked the Trump administration on Tuesday from carrying out an executive order that bans people with gender dysphoria from serving in the military, saying the government was unjustly discriminating against people based on their sex and transgender status.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes wrote in a scathing 79-page memorandum that President Donald Trump’s executive order on transgender service members and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s subsequent policy directive on them violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
“The cruel irony is that thousands of transgender servicemembers have sacrificed—some risking their lives—to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the Military Ban seeks to deny them,” Reyes, a Biden appointee, wrote.
Attorneys with the Department of Justice had argued in court that Trump’s and Hegseth’s orders did…
