WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A federal district court in Washington D.C. issued a preliminary injunction on Monday that halts the implementation of two portions of President Donald Trump's August 25, 2017 memorandum regarding so-called "transgender" people serving in the United States military.
In the August 2017 order, President Trump reversed policies put in place by the Obama administration in June 2016. Those Obama administration policies themselves reversed long-standing military rules against "transgender" people serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Prior to June 2016, "transgender" people were not permitted to enlist in the military and members of the military who identified themselves as "transgender" were discharged. Obama's Department of Defense announced in June 2016 that openly "transgender" people would be permitted to enlist in the military as of January 1, 2018 and those already in the military could not be discharged.
