The president’s anti-transgender policy has been on hold amid several court challenges, which will continue.
The Trump administration said Friday it will soon implement a ban on most transgender people in the military, despite lawyers for transgender challengers insisting a federal court injunction still blocks the policy.filed in the District Court for Washington, DC, the Justice Department said “there is no longer any impediment to the military’s implementation” of the ban, adding that the Pentagon plans to release a memorandum “formally implementing the new policy in the near future.
“The mandate clearly has not issued so the injunction remains in place,” Levi said in an email. “The injunction does not and cannot dissolve automatically without a court order and, in this case, there is no court order until the mandate issues.” In June 2016, the Obama administration lifted a decades-long ban on transgender service members after finding they didn’t harm the military. Trump reversed that decision in 2017, saying that transgender people would render the military “burdened with medical costs and disruption.” Trump formalized the policy in athat August — but four courts soon issued preliminary injunctions putting the ban on hold as legal challenges moved forward.
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