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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 ...

It builds on a directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this ... preventing transgender troops from living as transgender is a ban on trans military service full stop.

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 ...

Inc/Getty The Pentagon's updated policy follows President Donald Trump's Jan. 28 executive order calling to ban transgender troops from serving openly. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

A federal judge tore into lawyers from the Justice Department on Wednesday, homing in on a retweet from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth about disqualifying transgender troops from service ...

(Courtesy Karen Holmes) Under a new policy from the Pentagon, the military has been ordered to identify transgender troops and then ... Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum ...

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 ...

"Let's just use the Secretary of Defense [Pete] Hegseth's own words ... court's docket a recent DOD social media post that "transgender troops are disqualified from service without an exemption." ...

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 ...

The Pentagon has revealed a new plan to identify and remove transgender service members from the military. A senior Defense Department official outlined the new policy in a memo, which reads ...

President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen ... Trump ...