US government lodges another bid to fire transgender service members

Courts found the ban violated soldiers’ rights to due process – but the US government is denying this (Picture: AFP) The US government has appealed to remove 29 active-duty transgender service members before their case against the Pentagon’s ban goes to trial next year. The move comes a week after Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth told a crowd: ‘At the Department of War, we do training, not tr***ies.’ A ban on transgender service members went ahead last year, but now, courts have found that the ban violates soldiers’ rights to due process and equal protection, ABC News reported. The US Government has continued to deny that the ban against the transgender community violates their constitutional rights, and has now issued a petition to the Supreme Court to allow the ban to go ahead. Solicito