Third challenge filed to Trump's order on transgender troops
Source: The Hill
03/17/25 7:13 PM ET
Two transgender service members are suing the Trump administration over a pair of executive orders targeting transgender Americans and their implementation by the U.S. military. The lawsuit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey by two transgender men — Master Sgt. Logan Ireland and Staff Sgt. Nicholas Bear Bade — argues that President Trump’s executive orders proclaiming the government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, and barring trans people from serving openly in the military subject transgender service members “to unequal, harmful, and demeaning treatment.”
Ireland and Bade, represented by GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, are also challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Acting Air Force Secretary Gary Ashworth’s implementation of those orders.
Both Ireland and Bade are members of the U.S. Air Force with a combined 20 years of experience, according to court documents, and began their gender transitions more than a decade ago. They have each been placed on administrative absence and told they can only continue serving if they do so according to their birth sex.
“It is not possible, though, for either Plaintiff to serve as a woman because each one has medically transitioned to be and live as a man,” Monday’s lawsuit states. “And given the implementation timeline that the Trump Administration has publicized, both Plaintiffs reasonably fear that, as early as March 26, 2025, involuntary administrative separation proceedings will be initiated against them because of their transgender status.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5199691-third-challenge-trump-order-transgender-troops/
Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.564248/gov.uscourts.njd.564248.1.0.pdf
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