Transgender service members sue Trump administration for violating the constitution

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The lawsuit, filed Monday by six trans service members, is the first head-on legal challenge the Trump directive barring trans people from enlisting or serving

 

 

Molly Redden

Monday 28 August 2017 17.14 BST

 

 

Trump’s attempt to exclude transgender people from military service is based on “discredited myths” according to a lawsuit filed by six transgender service members on 28 August.

Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/28/transgender-service-members-lawsuit-aclu-trump

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Mattis allows transgender troops to serve as Pentagon studies Trump's ban

 

By G. ROBERT HILLMAN

 

08/29/2017 08:37 PM EDT

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday that transgender troops would continue serving in the military while the Pentagon studied the issue, a decision that delays the implementation of President Donald Trump’s recently signed directive.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/29/mattis-transgender-troops-pentagon-trump-242156

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