By Haley Strack | National Review
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration may begin enforcing a ban on transgender troops serving in the military while the case continues working its way through lower courts.
The ruling granted the administration’s emergency request to lift a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s executive order, so it did not lay out the justices’ reasoning and will remain in place only until the issue is decided in lower courts. The Court’s three liberal justices — Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor — dissented but did not provide their reasoning.
The ban was issued via executive order on Trump’s first day in office and revokes a Biden-era rule that allowed transgender people to serve openly in the military. A second executive order issued a week later stated that the “adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful and disciplined lifestyle.”