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A federal judge on Wednesday signaled that she was deeply skeptical that the Pentagon's handling of transgender service ...

A federal judge is hammering government lawyers with sharp questions about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ... transgender troops’ gender identity, despite the majority of the country supporting ...

The transgender military advocacy group SPARTA Pride has estimated between 15,000 and 25,000 transgender troops are currently ... d say it was a transgender ban.” Hegseth moved to implement ...

In 2016, six years after he signed a bill to let gay service members serve openly, President Barack Obama lifted a ban on transgender ... Pete Hegseth has called trans troops “weird” and ...

Due to an executive order from President Donald Trump, all transgender military recruits ... hormone therapies for active-duty troops. Hegseth cited the executive order, which accused trans ...

An earlier memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said that people ... Rights group have decried the push to ban transgender troops and say transgender people have served in the military ...

However, the issue has taken up a large part of the Pentagon’s attention and time as Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth work ... Trump tried to ban transgender troops from serving during ...

Reyes also lauded the service of several active-duty troops ... calls it a transgender ban.” Lynch said the order itself doesn’t require the discharge of service members while Hegseth crafts ...

WASHINGTON — The military services have 30 days to figure out how they will seek out and identify transgender service members to remove them from the force — a daunting task that may end up ...