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US judge blocks Trump's transgender military ban

  • A federal judge blocked a Defense Department policy preventing transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, granting preliminary injunctions for transgender active-duty members and enlistees.
  • U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes ordered the block against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's enforcement of President Trump's executive order.
  • The judge temporarily paused her ruling until March 21 to allow the Justice Department to seek emergency relief.
  • Reyes stated the military ban denies equal protection rights to transgender servicemembers who have risked their lives, emphasizing that 'all people are created equal.
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U.S. President Donald Trump had ordered transpersons to be excluded from the military. Now a judge has stopped the project. It violates the constitutional requirement that all people should be treated the same before the law, she said. Trump could have devised a policy that reconciles the nation's need for an operational army with the right to equal treatment, Judge Ana C. Reyes said. "We should all be agreed that every person who has responded …

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