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.
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.
January 4, 2018 – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against transgender service members, lifting the district court’s order preventing the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on military service by transgender people in Doe v. Trump.
Despite this decision, three nationwide preliminary injunctions halting the ban remain in effect blocking the ban while the cases proceed in the federal district courts. In addition, as the D.C. Circuit noted “today’s decision is not a final determination on the merits,” and the case will continue in the district court.
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.
So far, our cases fighting the ban have been winning at every level, but we have a long road ahead.
