Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth launches attack on lesbian judge who blocked trans military ban

Pete Hegseth has joined other high-ranking members of the Trump administration in criticising judge Ana Reyes for ruling against the ban on transgender people in the military.

US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth mocked Ana Reyes for blocking an executive order signed by Trump in January which aimed to remove trans men and women serving in the armed forces.

Reyes, the first out LGBTQ+ person to serve as a district court judge in Washington and who was appointed during Joe Biden’s time in the White House, issued an injunction on Tuesday (18 March), calling the policy “unabashedly demeaning”.

The ban amounts to discrimination on the basis of sex and that there was no evidence transgender troops have harmed the military in any way, the judge said.

“The

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