Judge Says Trump Administration Can't Stop Funding Surgeries for Transgender Service Members

A second federal judge blocked Trump's transgender military ban.

A second federal judge issued a decision on Tuesday (November 21) supporting the existing injunction on the transgender military ban proposed by the Trump administration. The new ruling also ensures that transgender service members can access transition-related surgical care.

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The plaintiffs in this case included six current service members who are transgender. The suit details how the policy impacts their ability to schedule medical services, and the ways in which the ban would impede those plans. The judge’s order says that the plaintiffs:

…Demonstrated that they are already suffering harmful consequences such as the cancellation and postponements of surgeries, the stigma of being set apart as inherently unfit, facing the prospect of discharge and inability to commission as an officer, the inability to move forward with long-term medical plans and the threat to their prospects of obtaining long-term assignments.

“Today is a victory for transgender service members across the country,” Joshua Block, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & HIV Projects, said in a statement. “We’re pleased that the courts have stepped in to ensure that trans service members are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.”

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