Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the military ... to reject transgender applicants, and another memo from Hegseth dated Jan. 31 that instructs DoD to take steps to implement the order.

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Reyes asked. “I do: He’d say it was a transgender ban.” Hegseth moved to implement Trump’s order earlier this month, directing military leaders in a Feb. 7 memo to pause accepting recruits ...

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

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 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a February 7 memo ordered a pause on enlistments of transgender ... He fears the ban on their enlistment may be a harmful setback for the military, which has ...

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 appeared reluctant about the legality of a Trump executive order that bans transgender people from the U.S.

Judge Ana Reyes peppered the attorneys with rhetorical questions and berated them for what she said was a gross lack of preparedness.

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 ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., tore into the Trump administration's efforts to bar transgender people from the military on Tuesday as she weighed whether to block any ban from taking effect ...