Appeals court won't delay block on US military's transgender ban
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Story by Luc Cohen (1 April 2025)
A U.S. appeals court on Monday denied a request by the Trump administration to pause a lower court's decision blocking President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military.
U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle in Tacoma, Washington last week issued a preliminary injunction putting on hold the military's new policy of identifying and discharging any transgender service members.
The Trump administration appealed Settle's ruling, and asked the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to put the ruling on hold - which would have allowed it to enforce the ban for now - while the appeal played out.
On Monday, a three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit denied the Trump administration's request for a so-called administrative stay of Settle's ruling.
In a similar case last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an administrative stay on a lower court order blocking the transgender ban.
But that court signaled it may quickly reconsider its decision if the military takes action against transgender members.
In his March 27 order in a case brought by seven active-duty transgender service members, Settle wrote that the military had operated smoothly for four years under a policy allowing transgender people to serve openly.