The Military Law Task Force is outraged at the current military effort to rush through discharge of transgender personnel, before a federal court can act to halt involuntary transgender discharges–in the process running roughshod over these servicemembers’ legal rights.
On Tuesday, May 6, the Supreme Court weighed in on the issue of transgender military service. Its unsigned opinion reversed a...
UPDATE: May 6, 2025: The US Supreme Court in an unsigned opinion (with 3 dissents) has allowed the DOD's ban on transgender...
By Jeff Lake As discussed in the last issue of On Watch, the President has issued an Executive Order which allows transgender...
By Jeff Lake On January 25, 2021, after years of confusion and litigation, the ban on military service by transgender...
By Jeff Lake There are continuing developments in the struggle to overturn the transgender ban regarding military enlistment...
BY JEFF LAKE There has been a significant development concerning the ban on military service by transgender individuals...
BY JEFF LAKE There have been a few new developments regarding the administration’s ban on military service by transgender...
BY JEFF LAKE Since the last issue of On Watch, several developments have occurred regarding the President’s attempt to ban...
BY JEFF LAKE The spring of 2019 has seen the implementation of the ban on military service by transgender individuals. ...
by Jeff Lake The spring of 2019 has seen the implementation of the ban on military service by transgender individuals. What...
BY JEFF LAKE As the year 2019 began, the administration’s attempt to ban military service by transgender people was blocked by...
As 2019 began, the administration’s attempt to ban military service by transgender people was blocked by four nationwide...
The Trump administration is trying again to block most transgender individuals from serving in the US military. But the policy...
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