{"id":2420579,"date":"2025-04-07T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-congress-doesnt-step-in-rogue-judges-will-trans-the-military\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T08:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:24:42","slug":"if-congress-doesnt-step-in-rogue-judges-will-trans-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-congress-doesnt-step-in-rogue-judges-will-trans-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"If Congress Doesn&#8217;t Step In, Rogue Judges Will Trans The Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-congress-doesnt-step-in-rogue-judges-will-trans-the-military%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2420579&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former senate majority Leader Chuck Schumer has acknowledged his role in confirming 235 progressive judges who have consistently ruled against former president Donald TrumpS policies. This judicial influence has led to challenges against Trump&#8217;s directives, notably regarding military policies that affect transgender individuals. Current court rulings favoring President Joe Biden&#8217;s policies threaten to make them permanent unless Congress intervenes.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s executive orders aimed at reinstating conventional military standards have been met with legal opposition, leading to lawsuits that seek to overturn these directives. Critics argue that some judges,seen as activists,have overstepped their authority and disregarded empirical data on the costs and consequences of accommodating individuals with gender dysphoria in the military,contributing to a politically charged legal habitat.<\/p>\n<p>The legal outcomes of these challenges could have significant implications for military policies and the role of Congress in setting such standards. As the judiciary becomes increasingly involved in policy-making, the need for congressional action to reinforce merit-based practices and dismantle ideological biases in the military is highlighted. Elaine donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, emphasizes the importance of ensuring military effectiveness over political agendas in upcoming legislation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently <a href=\"https:\/\/yournews.com\/2025\/03\/21\/3317787\/schumer-acknowledges-court-stacking-strategy-to-undermine-trump-we-put\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> that he is responsible for confirming 235 &ldquo;progressive&rdquo; judges who are &ldquo;ruling against Trump time after time.&rdquo; Activist judges are Schumer&rsquo;s Plan B.<\/p>\n<p>Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution empowers Congress to make policy for the military. But as things stand now, unelected, unaccountable federal judges are overruling President Donald Trump&rsquo;s executive orders and arrogating to themselves the power to run the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the 119th Congress intervenes, President Joe Biden&rsquo;s radical policies regarding trans-identifying people in the military will continue indefinitely.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Self-Appointed <\/strong><strong>&ldquo;Supreme Judicial Commanders&rdquo; Take Charge<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s Jan. 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/prioritizing-military-excellence-and-readiness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Executive Order 14183<\/a>, titled &ldquo;Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,&rdquo; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmrlink.org\/issues\/full\/dei-wall-crumbles-under-pressure-from-new-commanderinchief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one of several<\/a> calling for an undistracted focus on military warrior ethos, not &ldquo;political agendas or other ideologies harmful to unit cohesion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Executive Order 14168<\/a> (Jan. 20) defined biological reality &mdash; differentiating &ldquo;sex&rdquo; from subjective &ldquo;gender identity&rdquo; and proclaiming the existence of two immutable sexes, male and female. This EO also prohibited male access to women&rsquo;s sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities and discontinued the use of inaccurate invented pronouns and bureaucratic markers that reflect subjective gender identity instead of biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>The reality-based principles stated above, when applied to DOD policies regarding persons having a history of gender dysphoria or identifying as transgender, logically justified the revocation of Biden&rsquo;s directives accommodating persons with gender dysphoria or identifying as transgender in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s EOs and directives restored gender dysphoria to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esd.whs.mil\/Portals\/54\/Documents\/DD\/issuances\/dodi\/613003_vol02.PDF?ver=vx1spUpNVLcc-0-rov00Sg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOD list of physical and psychological conditions<\/a> that affect eligibility to serve and ended Biden-era mandates and subsidies for irreversible treatments and surgeries for &ldquo;transitioning&rdquo; purposes that attempt to change sex.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s executive orders also mandated respectful treatment and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2025\/03\/14\/new-navy-marine-corps-policy-gives-transgender-troops-until-march-28-voluntarily-leave-service.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">generous benefits<\/a> for persons separating from the military due to gender dysphoria and protected vulnerable children from chemical and surgical mutilation based on &ldquo;junk science&rdquo; recommended by discredited &ldquo;experts&rdquo; like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/lgbtq\/wpath-guidelines-trans-care-changes-criticized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Professional Association for Transgender Health<\/a> (WPATH).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Lawsuits Filed to Halt Trump Gender Dysphoria\/Transgender Policies<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Three lawsuits (<a href=\"https:\/\/signalakron.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/talbott-v.-trump.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Nicolas Talbott v. U.S.<\/em><\/a>  in Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theusconstitution.org\/litigation\/shilling-v-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Shilling v. Trump<\/em><\/a>  in Seattle, and <a href=\"https:\/\/glad-org-wpom.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250317_Ireland-v-Hegseth_Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Ireland v. Hegseth<\/em><\/a>  in New Jersey) are challenging the directives and premises behind Trump&rsquo;s executive order regarding persons diagnosed with gender dysphoria or identifying as transgender.<\/p>\n<p>In the <em>Talbott<\/em> case, District Court Judge Ana C. Reyes issued a nationwide preliminary injunction that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/judge-blocks-implementation-of-trump-s-transgender-military-ban\/ar-AA1BbPF9?ocid=BingNewsVerp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blocked implementation of Trump&rsquo;s order<\/a>. Judge Reyes, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/judge-who-blocked-key-trump-executive-order-has-long-history-of-left-wing-activism-dem-donations\/ar-AA1BftI0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">longtime Democrat\/left-wing activist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/04\/27\/president-biden-names-seventeenth-round-of-judicial-nominees\/\">described<\/a> as the first gay Latina U.S. district judge in D.C., displayed extreme bias in her handling of this case. Her behavior toward the Justice Department attorney defending the Trump policy was so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/doj-alleges-judge-displayed-hostile-and-egregious-misconduct-in-case-challenging-transgender-military-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">egregiously hostile<\/a> that the office of the attorney general filed a formal <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/misconduct_complaint_final_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Judge Reyes&rsquo; March 18 opinion in the <em>Talbott<\/em> case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/reyes-blocks-trans-military-ban-opinion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lashed out<\/a> at Trump&rsquo;s recognition of only two sexes and concerns about male\/female sexual privacy. Her strident rhetoric could be the start of a Plan B campaign of judicial lawfare against Trump and his efforts to restore sound priorities in our military.<\/p>\n<p>A similar national <a href=\"https:\/\/lambdalegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-27-Shilling-v.-Trump-ORDER-GRANTING-PI.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">injunction<\/a> in the <em>Shilling<\/em> case and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nclrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ireland_gov.uscourts.njd_.564248.28.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">temporary restraining order<\/a> in the <em>Ireland<\/em> case, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">additional adverse rulings expected<\/a> from other activist judges, could make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmrlink.org\/issues\/full\/biden-pentagon-quietly-expands-woke-transgender-policies-in-the-military-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden&rsquo;s extreme transgender policies<\/a> permanent while various lawsuits wind their way to an unpredictable Supreme Court.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Absent Congress Action, Biden Policies Likely to Become Permanent<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The 79-page <em>Talbott<\/em> opinion exploited weaknesses in the government&rsquo;s case, but Reyes&rsquo; intemperate language and obvious bias showed why federal judges should not be making policy for our military.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, Reyes disregarded Defense Department data on the costs and consequences of Obama-era treatments for gender dysphoria. In 2018, a <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1c\/Mattis_Memorandum_re_Military_Service_by_Transgender_Individuals_(22_Feb_2018).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOD panel of experts reported<\/a> to then-Defense Secretary James Mattis that &ldquo;994&nbsp;active duty Service members diagnosed with&nbsp;gender dysphoria&nbsp;accounted for&nbsp;30,000 mental health visits&rdquo; &mdash; and the medical expenses of service members thus diagnosed were close to triple those of members who did not have gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cmrlink.org\/data\/sites\/85\/CMRDocuments\/TrumpPolicyReport-FACT%2520SHEET_042318.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mattis panel&rsquo;s report<\/a> also cited long-term studies highlighting the operational and human costs of gender dysphoria, including disproportionately high risks of suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Why has this data not been updated? Perhaps because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmrlink.org\/issues\/full\/the-trumpmattis-transgender-policy-what-are-the-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden&rsquo;s policy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cmrlink.org\/data\/sites\/85\/CMRDocuments\/CMR_PolicyAnalysis_February2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prohibited discussion of problems<\/a> with the transgender policy without approval from high-level officials. Now Biden-era officials are praising their own policies before Congress and the courts.<\/p>\n<p>We don&rsquo;t know whether the Justice Department, representing the DOD, mentioned several empirical studies that have questioned lucrative treatments for gender dysphoria. A 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/trans-surgeries-increase-risk-mental-health-conditions-suicidal-ideations-study?msockid=12284d89773e6c430723583376516d97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Texas study<\/a>, for example, reported elevated risks of depression and suicide following so-called &ldquo;gender-affirming surgery.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Reyes ruling does not mention WPATH, a prominent organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/lgbtq\/wpath-guidelines-trans-care-changes-criticized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advocating<\/a> for irreversible <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/news\/leaked-files-reveal-wpaths-awareness-of-debilitating-potentially-fatal-effects-of-trans-procedures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">puberty blockers and mutilating surgeries<\/a> for minor children, which has been charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/cbn.com\/news\/health\/leaked-files-reveal-major-risks-transgender-experiments-critics-contend-it-not-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">medical ethics violations<\/a>. Nor does the record show consideration of the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=Cass+Review+England+transgenders&amp;form=ANNTH1&amp;refig=1fd62ecfc4e24501aaa3495136143bf9&amp;pc=U531&amp;ntref=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cass Review<\/a> in England, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-68770641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">questioned the benefits<\/a> of &ldquo;sex change&rdquo; treatments for children.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the Justice Department had presented many recent critical studies in court, the judge probably would have still described Trump&rsquo;s policy as &ldquo;soaked in animus and dripping with pretext.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Judge Reyes&rsquo; over-the-top opinion showed zero concern about operational complications, medical ethics, and overwhelming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_b6537968-dff2-11ef-b274-9fbf7250bf7f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public opinion<\/a> against men entering women&rsquo;s private facilities and playing on women&rsquo;s athletic teams. Activist court injunctions that usurp power from Congress and the executive branch are about reality-denying transgender ideology, not military effectiveness.<\/p>\n<h2>Congress Should Enact Common Sense in the Defense Bill (NDAA) for 2026<\/h2>\n<p>Years could pass before the issue reaches the Supreme Court, which may or may not hand down a decision favoring the Trump policy. This puts the ball squarely in Congress&rsquo;s court.<\/p>\n<p>If Congress fails to take principled action, accomplished in a way that can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proposed-gun-sale-ban-for-citizens-under-21-unlikely-to-withstand-judicial-review\/\" title=\"Proposed Gun Sale Ban For Citizens Under 21 Unlikely To Withstand Judicial Review\">withstand judicial scrutiny<\/a>, members could be held accountable for <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/columnists\/juan-williams\/5079909-trump-second-stint-congress-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not delivering<\/a> on promises made during the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p>It would help to inscribe four <a href=\"https:\/\/cmrlink.org\/data\/sites\/85\/CMRDocuments\/EssentialPrinciplesFourPointsMeritocracyFinal03232025_002.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essential principles<\/a> in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2026: merit as the exclusive basis for personnel actions, a prohibition on non-merit factors such as race in personnel actions, narrow exceptions for operational reasons, and clear definitions of key terms such as &ldquo;merit, &ldquo;male,&rdquo; and &ldquo;female.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Congress also should dismantle ideological power bases in the Pentagon. Nondiscriminatory practices and common-sense, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-isn-saying-no-to-the-trans-war-on-reality\/\" title=\"Trump Isn Saying No To The Trans War On Reality\">reality-based measures<\/a> would support President Trump&rsquo;s efforts to end leftist policies in the military, while reaffirming the purposes of the military that some federal judges refuse to respect.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Elaine Donnelly is president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmrlink.org\/\">Center for Military Readiness<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-conservatives-cant-get-good-laws-how-can-they-run-an-article-v-convention\/\" title=\"If Conservatives Can\u2019t Get Good Laws, How Can They Run An Article V Convention?\">independent public policy organization<\/a> that reports on and analyzes military and social issues.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges are overriding President Trump&#8217;s executive orders, taking control of military policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":504,"featured_media":2420580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Copy-of-Untitled-2025-04-02T134546.425.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4402,52966,4505,52965,42544],"class_list":["post-2420579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-congress","tag-legal-intervention","tag-military","tag-rogue-judges","tag-transgender-issues"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Copy-of-Untitled-2025-04-02T134546.425.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420583,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420579\/revisions\/2420583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2420580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}