Posted on 03/19/2025 5:40:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
In a ruling Tuesday, a Biden-appointed federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order effectively banning transgender persons from serving in the U.S. military.
Washington, D.C. District Court Judge Ana Reyes issued a preliminary injunction on the order, effectively halting the law until a former ruling is issued. Transgender military members sued the Trump administration in January over the order, alleging the policy violates the U.S. Constitution under equal protection afforded under the Fifth Amendment.
“Leaders have used concern for military readiness to deny marginalized persons,” Reyes said in her opinion. “First minorities, then women in combat, then gays filled in that blank. Today, however, our military is stronger and our Nation is safer for the millions of such blanks (and all other persons) who serve.”
Reyes was appointed under former President Joe Biden in 2023, serving as the first LGBT federal judge in D.C.
In the ruling, Reyes said that transgender service members did not hinder readiness, while also saying the defense based its assessments on the effectiveness and fitness of transgender soldiers on “pure conjecture.”
Trump’s policy allowed for case-by-case exemptions from the ban, provided enough “government interest” was at stake, but Reyes alleged this provision was “in name only.”
Reyes also lamented the “discrimination” that she said transgender persons face, saying there exists “government hostility—and at times outright discrimination—against transgender persons” while citing examples such as bathroom policies, adoption laws and laws targeting pronouns.
In oral arguments in the case, Reyes also said that the existence of only two biological sexes, male and female, was not “biologically correct.”
The ruling is set to go into effect on Friday, giving the DOJ time to file an emergency stay with the court, according to the ruling.
The Pentagon and the White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
(Featured Image Media Credit: Screen Capture/CSPAN)
Born Ana Cecilia Reyes
1974 (age 50–51)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Education
Transylvania University (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (MIPP)
Harvard University (JD)
This is the DNC’s version of Democracy. Wonder how corrupt this one is?
From a third world South American country?...
Clean and pure as the wind driven snow................
Mentally ill people belong in a hospital not the military.
The first LGBT federal judge in D.C..
First clue no logic to ensue.
our military is stronger and our Nation is safer for the millions of such blanks (and all other persons) who serve.”Good to know our Judiciary is in charge of public policy.
They say my grandson can’t be accepted in the military as he had cancer as a child. I wonder if people with Flat Feet or severe myopia now can claim that they are denied access. One guy I met in San Antonio, Texas said he was forced to leave the Air Force in Lackland, as his weight got over the limit. I think it is perfectly fine for the Generals to find troops READY to form a group of individuals who can bond together and go into battle, and not be distracted by pronouns.
That is politics, outright, and not rooted in fact.
It is an innumerate statement that "millions of such blanks" means anything.
These are rear-guard political antics by a losing political stance.
The picture accompanying the article is amusing, as one tries to imagine a whiny, grimacing tranny acting out it's hurt for the cameras.
Another one to ignore. Let’s get serious. No ruling by a Dorkbama or Pedo Joe selectee should be considered to be even a third-rate lawyer. Despite all the lawyer jokes, the few lawyers that I’ve known have been sharp folks. To date, none of the leftist judge-jokers I’ve read about deserve respect.
Trump should announce the creation of the Queer Regiment. Armed only with
high heels and hand bags these troops will be the tip of the spear for any combat action going forward.
Democrats, die on this hill.
Deluded insane lying tranny soldiers.
The Supreme Court okayed Trump’s ban on transgenders during his first term.
I wonder if all this is tying the democrats and marxists up in knots to deflect them from the real agenda underneath all this judiciary nonsense.
Is there something else being done no one sees for all the hoopla about surface news? The media is more than ecstatic to blow everything up on the front page. Straining at gnats so to speak.
BTTT
The Revolution is in charge of public policy - sympathetic judges are ordering that it remains in charge, no matter what the counterrevolutionary electorate said in November.
It’s time we start seeing activist judges impeached and removed from the bench.
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always The Revolution!” - David Horowitz
I heard Steve Bannon say that from inside sources, the DC circuit judges are all vying for position to issue the next temporary restraining order… He makes it sound as if it’s a big joke to them and they want to see who will be able to cash in next.
It has been my observation of leftists that, when they think they’re in a safe space and everybody is “one of them“ they take off the mask without making sure that everybody listening is indeed “one of them“.
I don’t buy into everything Bannon says, but this does not sound out of line with what I have seen in leftists.
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