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 ...

The transgender military advocacy group SPARTA Pride has estimated between 15,000 and 25,000 transgender troops are currently ... d say it was a transgender ban.” Hegseth moved to implement ...

Due to an executive order from President Donald Trump, all transgender military recruits ... hormone therapies for active-duty troops. Hegseth cited the executive order, which accused trans ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

And Reyes asked how the Pentagon could avoid banning transgender troops ... a transgender ban.” Under an executive order on Jan. 27, Trump called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to develop ...

Reyes also lauded the service of several active-duty troops ... calls it a transgender ban.” Lynch said the order itself doesn’t require the discharge of service members while Hegseth crafts ...

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 ...

There are about 2.1 million troops serving. However, the issue has taken up a large part of the Pentagon’s attention and time as Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth work to root them out ...