Topline
The Trump administration’s transgender military ban will take effect again while litigation against it moves forward, as the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to throw out a lower court’s ruling that put the controversial policy on hold.
Vin Testa waves a LGBTQ pride flag in front of the Supreme Court building on June 26, 2023 in … More
Key Facts
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to throw out a lower court’s ruling that paused the policy, which states that “individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are no longer eligible for military service.”
The justices did not give any explanation for their reasoning behind the order, which allows the transgender military ban to take effect while the case moves forward in federal appeals court.
The court was split along ideological lines, with the court’s three liberal justices—Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson—saying they would have denied the Trump administration’s request and continued to pause the ban.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
