The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to halt a federal judge’s order preventing it from implementing a policy disqualifying individuals who have gender dysphoria or have undergone medical interventions for that condition.
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court on April 24 that the Department of Defense “rationally determined that service by individuals with gender dysphoria would undermine military effectiveness and lethality—consistent with similar, longstanding determinations for a wide range of other medical conditions.”
The administration’s request for emergency relief came after a separate order in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied another of the administration’s requests to block the lower court order.
U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle said in March that “all transgender service members are likely to suffer the irreparable harm of losing the military service career they have chosen, while otherwise qualified accession plaintiffs will lose the opportunity to serve.”
Settle said the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in claiming that the administration’s policy violated the Constitution.
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