The Trump administration is still blocked from enforcing a ban on transgender people in the military, after a Ninth Circuit panel denied their emergency motion to stay a district judge’s order not to enforce the ban.
The administration failed to show it would be irreparably harmed without a stay, judges in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in a Friday order.
Judge Benjamin H. Settle of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington wrote March 27 that the trans troops and a transgender advocacy group would likely succeed on the merits that the executive order ban violates their Constitutional rights, and that forcing them out of the military would likely cause irreparable harm.
The question in the case is not “especially close,” Settle wrote.
Judges A. Wallace Tashima, John B. Owens, and Roopali H. Desai were on the 9th Circuit panel. They denied a request from Trump attorneys for a shorter-term administrative stay of Settle’s order.
The case is Shilling v. Trump, 9th Cir., No. 25-2039, 4/18/25.
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