D.C. Circuit Lifts Nationwide Injunction On Trump's Transgender Military Ban

The policy remains blocked thanks to other nationwide injunctions.

onJanuary 4, 2019 at 2:02 PMJanuary 4, 2019 at 1:33 PM

Today’s decision is based on the absurd idea that forcing transgender people to suppress who they are in order to serve is not a ban. We keep fighting

— Jennifer Levi, the transgender rights project director at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and Western New England University School of Law professor who represented plaintiffs in one of the transgender military ban cases, commenting on the D.C. Circuit’s decision to lift a nationwide injunction that blocked President Trump’s policy of barring transgender people from serving in the military. The policy remains blocked thanks to other nationwide injunctions.

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