Federal Appeals Court Sacks Trump’s Trans Service Member Ban

The court has ruled that the policy is unconstitutional and further stated that it “appears to be driven by the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group.” It also states that the policy advanced by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is “arbitrary and based on animus.”

“The record shows that the purpose of the Hegseth Policy is to target applicants and servicemembers who express what the Administration believes is a ‘false gender identity,’ and the Policy goes far beyond disqualifying persons currently or recently suffering from gender dysphoria,” the decision says. “Some of those disqualifications are completely unexplained and have no reasonable justification.”