Judge grills DOJ attorney over legality of Pentagon’s transgender service member ban

Judge Ana Reyes grilled a Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney over the legality of the new transgender service member ban policy by the Pentagon.

In January, Nicolas Talbott, a transgender army second lieutenant who previously campaigned for his right to join the military, and seven others filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The case alleges that the ban violates the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment by discriminating against people “based on their sex and based on their transgender status”.

On Wednesday (12 March), Judge Reyes – who previously teared apart Trump’s anti-trans executive orders – probed the DOJ lawyer over the ban, arguing that the Pentagon’s policy is based on a flawed idea of what gender dysphoria is. 

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