{"id":2426310,"date":"2025-04-22T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-doj-argues-banning-transgender-troops-is-core-area-of-power\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:30:13","slug":"trump-doj-argues-banning-transgender-troops-is-core-area-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-doj-argues-banning-transgender-troops-is-core-area-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump DOJ argues banning transgender troops is \u2018core area\u2019 of power"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Ftrump-doj-argues-banning-transgender-troops-is-core-area-of-power%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=2426310&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>The article discusses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-weighs-second-amendment-rights-for-domestic-violence-offenders\/\" title=\"Supreme Court considers Second Amendment rights of domestic violence offenders.\">ongoing legal debate surrounding<\/a> the Trump administration&#8217;s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military. During a recent appeals court hearing in Washington, D.C., Department of Justice attorney Jason Manion argued that President Donald Trump has the authority to implement this ban, claiming it would enhance military readiness. The ban allows transgender individuals to serve only if they identify with their assigned biological sex and refrain from seeking medical treatment for gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<p>The three-judge panel, comprising two Trump appointees and one Obama appointee, is reviewing whether to suspend a lower court&#8217;s ruling that blocked the ban. Judge Cornelia Pillard expressed skepticism regarding the justification for the policy, questioning its basis in clinical data and the overall impact on military effectiveness.The plaintiffs, a group of transgender service members, argue that the policy is discriminatory and lacks a substantive foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The article highlights the tension between the legal arguments presented by the administration and the concerns raised by judges regarding potential animosity and arbitrary decision-making in the ban&#8217;s formulation. The case is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/n-y-gov-hochul-funds-program-to-combat-shootings-despite-tightening-gun-restrictions-in-state\/\" title=\"N.Y. Gov. Hochul funds program to combat shootings, despite tightening gun restrictions in state\">multiple legal challenges<\/a> against the policy,with implications for the rights and service of transgender military members.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump administration argues banning transgender troops is &lsquo;core area&rsquo; of president&rsquo;s power<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2097128\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Department of Justice attorney Jason Manion argued to an appeals court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, on Tuesday that President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has the authority to ban people with gender dysphoria from the military and that doing so would improve military preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>Manion made his case to a three-judge panel that the policy, outlined this year in an executive order and subsequent policy issued by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, still allowed transgender people to serve in the military so long as they identified as their biological sex and did not seek medical treatments for their condition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3387490\/anna-paulina-luna-doj-pursuing-criminals\/\">Anna Paulina Luna calls on DOJ to be &#8216;aggressively&#8217; pursuing criminals: &#8216;Get on it&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3386810\/bob-menendez-wife-nadine-menendez-convicted-corruption-case\/\">Nadine Menendez, wife of former senator, convicted in corruption case<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3386319\/google-monopoly-case-begins-justice-department\/\">Google: Justice Department throwing &#8216;caution to the wind&#8217; as monopoly case begins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The three judges, comprising two Trump appointees and one former President Barack Obama appointee, are considering whether to pause a lower court&rsquo;s decision to block the administration from implementing the ban.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Cornelia Pillard, the Obama appointee, appeared the most skeptical of Manion&rsquo;s arguments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, your argument that this is not a ban on transgender service is that you can serve as a transgender person as long as you don&rsquo;t serve as a transgender person,&rdquo; Pillard said. &ldquo;Is that right?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Manion responded that the policy targets &ldquo;a subset of the category&rdquo; of transgender people: those who have gender dysphoria, &ldquo;which is marked by that significant clinical distress and the impairment of functioning that applies in social, occupational, and other important areas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Pillard and Manion had a lengthy dialogue, during which the judge scrutinized what she said was a lack of data to support the policy and questioned whether the government should produce more evidence that people with gender dysphoria negatively affect the military. She also observed that under former Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Pentagon posed no restrictions on transgender service members and no data existed to show that the policy had an adverse effect on the military.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe there&rsquo;s a constitutional requirement for the government&rdquo; to produce that level of evidence, Manion replied.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But there is a constitutional requirement of non-arbitrary decision-making,&rdquo; Pillard responded.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Neomi Rao asked if the lower court judge, Judge Ana Reyes, erred by finding that Trump&rsquo;s and Hegseth&rsquo;s policies showed animus toward all transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>Manion did not deny that the policy involved animus, but he said the government felt it had enough supporting evidence from the first Trump administration, in the form of &ldquo;months of study,&rdquo; expert review, and interviews to make up for it.<\/p>\n<p>Manion said that if the appellate court did not pause Reyes&rsquo;s order, Trump and Hegseth would suffer irreparable harm by remaining unable to enforce a crucial military policy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a core area of presidential power,&rdquo; Manion said. &ldquo;This is something where the military has determined that this policy will increase the readiness and effectiveness of the military, and in fact, that not being able to enact it would be harmful to the military.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was brought by more than two dozen service members, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">including decorated active-duty military members<\/a> who identify as transgender and who say they are unjustly being discriminated against. Shannon Minter, the attorney arguing on behalf of the plaintiffs, said the transgender troops will face immediate separation from the military after years of excelling at their jobs if the courts side with Trump. Minter said the discrimination was &ldquo;striking&rdquo; and had no concrete basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3352063\/judge-blocks-trump-order-barring-transgender-troops-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP&rsquo;S ORDER BARRING TRANSGENDER TROOPS FROM SERVING IN MILITARY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We just don&rsquo;t see ordinarily, in this day and age, the government openly, just with complete transparency, expressing animosity towards a group of people and openly relying on that as a justification for a policy,&rdquo; Minter said. &ldquo;And this is that rare case where we do have that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit is one of at least three challenging the transgender service members&rsquo; policy. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently denied the Trump administration&rsquo;s request to lift a separate injunction on the policy. Manion informed the District of Columbia panel of judges that the DOJ would soon seek relief from the Supreme Court in that case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2097128\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2097128\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump admin claims banning transgender troops is presidential power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2426311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP24238531939244-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7076,4019,3634],"class_list":["post-2426310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-doj","tag-transgender","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP24238531939244-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426310","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426314,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426310\/revisions\/2426314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}