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BALTIMORE, Maryland, November 23, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A second federal judge has ruled against President Donald Trump’s proposed ban on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military.
U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis issued a preliminary injunction against the ban Tuesday. He wrote that transgender service members had “demonstrated that they are already suffering harmful consequences” due to the policy.
Garbis cited as consequences, “the cancellation and postponements of surgeries, the stigma of being set apart as inherently unfit, facing the prospect of discharge and inability to commission as an officer, the inability to move forward with long-term medical plans, and the threat to their prospects of obtaining long-term assignments.”
The six plaintiffs in the lawsuit have all been receiving hormone therapy, according to a report from NBC News.
Trump announced the ban in July via Twitter. The proposed order reinstates a previous longtime ban on transgender military service that had been struck down last year by former President Barack Obama.
Garbis took aim at the president in his decision, writing, that the “capricious, arbitrary, and unqualified tweet of new policy does not trump the methodical and systematic review by military stakeholders qualified to understand the ramifications of policy change.”
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