No other military policy excludes a class of persons from enlisting or serving in our armed forces. This ban discriminates based on who someone is rather than whether they can do the job. Stand with us and our more than 9,000 currently serving trans troops.
Updated March 8, 2019
For more than 40 years, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) have been moving the needle on LGBTQ equality.
These courageous individuals, both named and anonymous, are standing up on behalf of their community and will make a difference for generations to come.
March 19, 2019 – Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Remains Blocked by Injunction
Washington, D.C.— D.C. Federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly today confirmed that the preliminary injunction she ordered blocking implementation of Trump’s transgender military ban remains in place pending full resolution of the appeals process in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling rebukes the Trump administration’s claim that it is free to move forward with enforcement of Trump’s ban with no further legal barriers.
If you have been or could be affected by the transgender military ban, we’d like to hear from you.
We filed Doe v. Trump on August 9, 2017 – the first lawsuit to challenge the ban, and the first to win a nationwide preliminary injunction against it.
Two months later, we joined Stockman v. Trump, another lawsuit challenging the ban, brought on behalf of Equality California.
Two other lawsuits challenging the ban are also working their way through the courts: Stone v. Trump brought by the ACLU and Karnoski v. Trump brought by Lambda Legal.
Partner Organizations Supporting Transgender Troops
and Fighting the Ban:
SPART*A | Equality California | OutServe-SLDN | Lambda Legal | ACLU | TPOCC
