Rogue judges declared war on the Trump administration.
The Trump cabinet isn’t taking this lying down.
And Pete Hegseth’s startling response to losing this court battle has Washington in a panic.
As Swamp Digest reports:
A divided D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a 2-1 decision that blocked President Trump’s transgender troop ban for the military.
Due to a previous Supreme Court ruling that sought to limit national injunctions, this ruling only applied to the 28 transgender individuals who filed the suit.
But it still threatened President Trump’s agenda of expunging woke from the military to ensure America possessed the most lethal and competent fighting force in human history.
After the decision came down, Hegseth delivered a simple message that this fight was far from over.
“See you at SCOTUS,” Hegseth posted on X.
In the insane decision, Judge Robert L. Wilkins wrote that Trump’s order banning transgender troops was based on the fact that transgenderism violated the military oath of honesty and humility, because a man pretending to be a woman is fundamentally dishonest, and wasn’t based on fact.
“In the beginning days of his second term in office, President Trump issued an Executive Order proclaiming that persons expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service,’” Wilkins wrote. “Exec. Order No. 14183, 90 Fed. Reg. 8757 § 1 (Jan. 27, 2025). The President, and later Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (now redesignated as Secretary of War), also declared that persons affiliated with gender dysphoria are unfit for military service, because among other things, the character of such persons (in the President’s and Secretary’s words) is ‘inconsistent’ with the ‘high standards . . . [of] honesty, humility, . . . and integrity.’”
“In this litigation, the government has not attempted to defend or provide any factual basis for these disparaging characterizations of American citizens,” Wilkins added. “Indeed, the government has not contested that the Plaintiff-Appellees, who are currently serving (and who have collectively earned more than 80 recommendations), have served honorably and pose no threat to national security, even though they happen to be transgender and have suffered from gender dysphoria.”
“Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life,” the executive order read. “A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, are not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”
In addition to dishonesty, transgenderism affects military readiness since troops who undergo these body-mutilating surgeries require significant recovery time and can’t report for active duty.
Wiliks didn’t address that point and instead claimed a man pretending to be a woman isn’t a falsehood and attacked Hegseth for hating trans people.
“The Hegseth policy is both arbitrary and based upon animus, and for those reasons the Policy violates Plaintiff-Appellees’ constitutional right to equal protection of the law,” Wilkins went on to write.
The Supreme Court upheld Trump’s transgender troop ban in his first term, but that case wasn’t decided on the merits of the policy.
This case will now decide if woke judges or the Commander-in-Chief is in charge of determining what constitutes fitness for service.