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In this case, the district court issued a universal injunction usurping the Executive Branch's authority to determine who may serve in the nation's armed forces,
Trump's Justice Department said in an application for a stay by the top court A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”
The government’s arguments are not persuasive, and it is not an especially close question on this record,
wrote Settle, a former captain in the US army judge advocate general corps and an appointee of George W Bush Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact,
Any argument that the 2025 policy will cause respondents reputational harm is unfounded given that any discharge under the policy will be honourable except where the service member’s record warrants a lower characterisation,
The Constitution does not authorize courts to second-guess the approach to gender transition adopted by the 2025 policy,
You just don’t see — ordinarily — the government openly [and] just with complete transparency, expressing animosity towards a group of people and openly relying on that as a justification for a policy,
This isn’t just an ordinary medical policy,
The law does not demand that the court rubber-stamp illogical judgments based on conjecture,
wrote Judge Reyes, who was appointed by Mr. Biden They’ve scared all of the trans people off,
said one person close to the Pentagon familiar with the conversations, granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue Service members and all other covered beneficiaries 19 years of age or older may receive appropriate care for their diagnosis of [gender dysphoria], including mental health care and counseling and newly initiated or ongoing cross-sex hormone therapy,
Dr. Stephen Ferrara, the Pentagon’s acting assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, said in a memo dated April 21. I don’t want to jam up the D.C. Circuit. That’s my main concern here,
Reyes said during the March 21 hearing Absent a stay, the district court’s universal injunction will remain in place for the duration of further review in the Ninth Circuit and in this Court—a period far too long for the military to be forced to maintain a policy that it has determined, in its professional judgment, to be contrary to military readiness and the Nation’s inter-ests,
lawyers for the Trump administration argued The Department of Justice has vigorously defended President Trump’s executive actions, including the Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness Executive Order, and will continue to do so,
a Justice Department official told Fox News Digital at the time
