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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration can move forward with a ban on transgender military service members for now, lifting a lower court injunction against the policy after a judge ruled it was an "unsupported, dramatic and facially unfair exclusionary policy."
The Trump administration said it is moving quickly to purge the military of about 1,000 service members who have self-identified as having gender dysphoria.
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The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed.
It's been a month since the UK Supreme Court ruled that under the Equality Act, "woman" means a biological woman. The decision was welcomed by some women's rights groups but condemned in the transgender community.
A senior defense official laid out what could be a complicated and lengthy new process aimed at fulfilling President Trump’s directive to remove transgender military members.