BREAKING🚨🏳️‍🌈 Two federal courts have now found Trump's transgender military ban was built on hostility rather than military need. Trump just asked the Supreme Court to wipe those rulings out before any evidence is heard. That trial is set for January 4, two weeks in a Washington courtroom where the government would finally have to defend the transgender military ban with evidence. On Friday, Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a petition asking the justices to take the constitutional question first, calling the appeals court decision protecting those troops "gravely erroneous." The troops have already won twice. In March 2025, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the ban, writing that it was "soaked in animus and dripping with pretext" and "a solution in search of a problem." On June 1 of this year, a divided D.C. Circuit panel kept those protections in place for the service members still serving. Judge Robert Wilkins found "direct evidence" that the policy was motivated by animosity toward transgender people and wrote that it appeared driven by a "bare desire to harm" them. Sauer's answer is that the ban does not discriminate against transgender people at all. It merely classifies, he told the justices, "based on a medical condition (gender dysphoria)" — which would mean the government has to show only "plausible reasons" for pushing thousands of people out. The policy Pete Hegseth issued on February 26, 2025 disqualifies anyone with a current diagnosis of gender dysphoria, a history of it, symptoms of it, or medical treatment for it. Its waiver is so narrow that lower courts have described it as effectively meaningless. The Pentagon has been running closed-door separation boards to remove transgender troops whose records show years of exemplary service. Reyes has since certified a class covering transgender service members, so what the Supreme Court does next reaches far past the original plaintiffs.