Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the military ... to reject transgender applicants, and another memo from Hegseth dated Jan. 31 that instructs DoD to take steps to implement the ...

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Reyes asked. “I do: He’d say it was a transgender ban.” Hegseth moved to implement Trump’s order earlier this month, directing military leaders in a Feb. 7 memo to pause accepting recruits ...

A federal judge is hammering government lawyers with sharp questions about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ... transgender troops’ gender identity, despite the majority of the country supporting ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a February 7 memo ordered a pause on enlistments of transgender ... He fears the ban on their enlistment may be a harmful setback for the military, which has ...

Inc/Getty The Pentagon's updated policy follows President Donald Trump's Jan. 28 executive order calling to ban transgender troops from serving openly. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

An earlier memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said that people ... Rights group have decried the push to ban transgender troops and say transgender people have served in the ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., tore into the Trump administration's efforts to bar transgender people from the military on Tuesday as she weighed whether to block any ban from taking ...

U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes demanded that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth offer a retraction over a repost he made ...