The D.C. Circuit just ruled to block President Trump’s executive order to ban so-called ‘transgender’ individuals from serving in the U.S. military.

Specifically, the ruling orders Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth not to take any action against men pretending to be women (or vice versa) in the military.

Take a look at breaking news for yourself:

Here’s the order:

This ruling comes after a federal judge on Wednesday effectively blocked the ban on transgender troops.

The Department of Justice had issued an appeal to the D.C. Circuit in that case.

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Advocate has more background:

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday appealed a federal district court judge’s ruling that blocks enforcement of the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military service.

The appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit comes one day after U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes denied the administration’s emergency request to dissolve a preliminary injunction she issued on March 18 in Talbott v. Trump, a lawsuit brought by 32 trans plaintiffs challenging the ban.

In her Wednesday opinion, Reyes wrote that the federal government “cannot evade discriminating against transgender people simply by labeling the policy as addressing gender dysphoria.” She also denied the government’s request to stay the injunction pending appeal.

Reyes’ order blocking the ban is scheduled to take effect at 7 p.m. Eastern on Friday. The ruling halts the implementation of the policy laid out in PresidentDonald Trump’s Executive Order 14183 and the accompanying “Hegseth Policy,” which attorneys for transgender service members suing the government say would result in involuntary separation of active-duty transgender military members and deny entry to transgender recruits.

“The government respectfully requests a stay pending appeal and an immediate administrative stay by March 28 at 7:00 P.M., when the district court stay expires,” DOJ lawyerswrote to the D.C. Circuit Court. “Absent this relief, the military will be forced to continue implementing a policy that the Department has determined is not compatible with military readiness and lethality.”

The DOJ claimed Reyes “substituted [her] judgment for that of the military.”

These rogue, activist judges are getting out of hand.

The ruling may be set to go into effect on Friday, but you can bet the fight is far from over…

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
 

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