Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the military to ... Two federal lawsuits argue Trump’s executive order preventing transgender troops from serving is unconstitutional.

He explained the rationale for the ban: "The Department of Defense's mission requires Service members to abide by strict mental and physical standards," Hegseth wrote in the memo. "The lethality ...

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A federal judge is hammering government lawyers with sharp questions about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ... transgender troops’ gender identity, despite the majority of the country supporting ...

A federal judge tore into lawyers from the Justice Department on Wednesday, homing in on a retweet from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth about disqualifying transgender troops from service ...

(Courtesy Karen Holmes) Under a new policy from the Pentagon, the military has been ordered to identify transgender troops and then ... Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ... s policy on transgender troops, likely setting in motion a future ban on their military ...

WASHINGTON — The military services have 30 days to figure out how they will seek out and identify transgender service members to remove them from the force — a daunting task that may end up ...

New Yorkers protest Donald Trump's first transgender service ban announcement in July 2017 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the military to pause integrating ... Two federal lawsuits argue Trump’s executive order preventing transgender troops from serving is unconstitutional.

The Pentagon has revealed a new plan to identify and remove transgender service members from the military. A senior Defense Department official outlined the new policy in a memo, which reads ...