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

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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 ...

It builds on a directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this ... preventing transgender troops from living as transgender is a ban on trans military service full stop.

In 2016, six years after he signed a bill to let gay service members serve openly, President Barack Obama lifted a ban on transgender ... Pete Hegseth has called trans troops “weird” and ...

Inc/Getty The Pentagon's updated policy follows President Donald Trump's Jan. 28 executive order calling to ban transgender troops from serving openly. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

An earlier memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said that people ... Rights group have decried the push to ban transgender troops and say transgender people have served in the military ...

(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 ...

However, the issue has taken up a large part of the Pentagon’s attention and time as Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth work ... Trump tried to ban transgender troops from serving during ...

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.

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 ...