Days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Pentagon’s ban on transgender-identifying service members, the Department of Defense will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 people diagnosed with gender dysphoria out of the military.
Others will have 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military service on Tuesday. The high court lifted a nationwide injunction from a district judge, but it will likely revisit the case of Shilling v. United States. The high court hasn’t yet ruled on the merits of the policy.
Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, asserting they would have allowed the pause to remain in place.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January stating transgender service…
