Judge Blocks Trump Trans Military Ban

U.S. District Judge Benjamin barred Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth from enforcing the transgender military ban. The judge ruled the order from President Trump was clearly discriminatory and relied on old data.

“The government has … provided no evidence supporting the conclusion that military readiness, unit cohesion, lethality, or any of the other touchstone phrases long used to exclude various groups from service have in fact been adversely impacted by open transgender service,” wrote Settle. “The Court can only find that there is none.”

“Any evidence that such service over the past four years harmed any of the military’s inarguably critical aims would be front and center,” said the 65 year old BUSH appointee “But there is none.”

The judge claimed that the Trump administration was cherry picking data that was misleading, and therefore there was no real legitimate for the ban.

The Trump administration will likely appeal the ruling.

Read the ruling here : https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.344431/gov.uscourts.wawd.344431.104.0_1.pdf